Being let go from new job

needaname

Ok so basically I started working in a new job 6 weeks ago. Everything goin fine until today when I reported an incident of neglect which was quite serious.... a few hours later I was told that I'm too shy and I will be having a meeting next week to see if I will be let go. Now since i'v been there there have been a few incidents of neglect etc and once I made a report they suddenly decide that i'm too shy and picking up on things that happened weeks ago etc etc. Now right now I feel like I am bein bullied out of a job and really dont think I will be able to go back tomoro, to finish the week and find out I am being let go next week anyway. I am so dissappointed as I worked so hard to get this job in the first place! My question is if I dont go back tomoro will I be able to sign back onto the jobseekers allowance or will i be disqualified for 9 weeks?

bongi69

FYI if you leave employment voluntarily or are fired for misconduct, you're disqualified from Jobseekers for 9 weeks.

Is it in your job description, or in the employee handbook to report these incidents?

GerardKeating

bongi69 wrote: »

FYI if you leave employment voluntarily or are fired for misconduct, you're disqualified from Jobseekers for 9 weeks.

Is it in your job description, or in the employee handbook to report these incidents?

If the incident involved heath and safety, would could argue that it is an implied duty of any/all employees to report...

needaname

Yes its in the handbook to report these incidents. basically I work in the care industry and I was a witness to 2 counts of violence. I reported the incidents and now I am being punished for doing so. Ya see i'm not really leaving voluntarily as I dont want to leave I like the job but I am being bullied and threatened I will be let go just because I witnessed these incidents. before this I was getting on great

VEXERZ

http://www.equality.ie/index.asp?docID=48

Balagan

You are doing the right thing in reporting this violence. Remember that.

I know someone who was asked to work outside safety guidelines recently, a really bad situation, and faced with having to walk away from the answer-to-prayer job went to the social welfare and told his story first and ended up without the 9 week wait before reclaiming. But fight dismissal every way you can first.

Document everything as it unfolds. Pull out the stops. Contact the National Employment Rights Authority http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/ and link provided in previous post.
If he/she is worth anything, go to your TD now and outline what's happening.

Congratulations to you on your courage.

Xiney

I left a job once because they were asking me to commit fraud - I was awarded the dole without the 9 week wait. The wording is "MAY be disqualified for a period of UP TO nine weeks" which means if you have a good reason for leaving (such as being bullied for reporting an assault) you aren't really leaving of your own volition.

Sounds like a crap situation. Good for you for reporting it - the people who are supposedly being cared for probably can't.

needaname

Thanks for the support guys. I wont be goin back to work tomoro I will be goin to my local welfare office and then I will be goin to report these incidents to the qualified body. I'm not goin to be another victim

Nonoperational

You should go in, and keep going in. If they fire you challenge them. Without knowing the full story you seem in the right.

needaname

Ah I'd love to go in and put up a fight for myself and the clients being cared for... but honestly I am way too upset and mentally exhausted by the whole thing that I actually physically cannot put up a fight

Balagan

needaname wrote: »

Ah I'd love to go in and put up a fight for myself and the clients being cared for... but honestly I am way too upset and mentally exhausted by the whole thing that I actually physically cannot put up a fight

I'd advise contacting the SW before giving up the job in circumstances such as these.

Xiney

gpf101 wrote: »

You should go in, and keep going in. If they fire you challenge them. Without knowing the full story you seem in the right.

To be honest - they've only been working there 6 weeks.

Unfair dismissal, etc, does not apply.