I found out this week that a young colleague made a complaint about our manager and is now taking this further to employment tribunal stage. They have long term mental health issues and felt they were not supported and victimised.
This is causing me some turmoil because I experienced the same thing at the hands of this manager after I had a breakdown/suicidal ideation and needed two months off work. Work pressure were part of what pushed me to the edge.
I had already declared long term metal health issues to HR and my manager was aware but they were unsupportive when I came back and tried to ignore the GP's recommendations for reasonable adjustments in my fit note.
I challenged this, occupational health became involved and they backed down a bit and accepted the reasonable adjustments the GP had listed.
Since then though I have often been undermined and excluded from emails/meetings had my performance criticised without concrete evidence and I generally feel like they want to push me to quit so they don't have to make me redundant or face a legal claim.
Hearing that someone else has similar issues has really affected me and I am struggling to motivate myself at work.
I am also wondering whether I should have lodged a formal complaint as well when I came back from sick leave, but I was just so focused on trying to get my health back and had so little energy that I could not face the additional stress.
I am job hunting b but now wondering whether I should also consider making a complaint as well against that manager or claim constructive dismissal when I finally find a new job.
Basically I feel like my colleague had the strength to challenge them while I just bottled it all inside and continued to soldier on and I am letting this employer get away with shoddy behaviour.