Its besides the point, technically still government funded, governed and responsibility

I have been stung twice by the DVLA, was actually taken to court for no reason but because DVLA never responded to my registered post letters I had to travel all the way to Swansea Magistrates just to plead not guilty! DVLA phone number is completely pointless and their staff are so rude even if your trying to enquiry if they have received your letters. DVLA is a mess and Google is flooded by people who have had massive issues with this pathetic government agency!

I have 3 months to submit a claim which is middle of next month.

One harsh lesson I've learnt thanks to everyone is help give me focus and direction in my application. I'm trying to keep costs down and write as much of the application myself before I ask my Solicitor to proof-read/amend. Thanks @Emmzi dont worry it will all be about me, Me, ME!!!! I trust the opinion and very grateful for all support and encouragement and I promise to make a contribution once I get my feet back working back with real humans!

My whole case is focused on one thing, trying to fabricate a story to get me sacked! As soon as they put me into a disciplinary process I knew my card was marked and I will prove this by: Firstly point out the flaws in their HR process No evidence presented Show a deep rooted culture of lying to customers/window dressing Turning a blind eye to other incidents Awarding of pay rises and bonuses during a company-wide freeze Putting people through a redundancy process but being told that even though they were in scope for redundancy they were not the ones who would be made redundant and that they were just to make it look like a fair process. Redundant staff members although given opportunity by managers to help retain their jobs in other departments for vacant positions not given opportunity to apply for positions or given opportunity but to then be told by board members that they had been identified for a reason. This is just a snippet and many people have likened this to the evil office because some of the stories I have are beyond belief.....I could write a show!

I used to be part of Unite but when I changed companies my subscription ended. So when I went to speak to them for advice they said I would need payment to cover the two years I had missed in order to reinstate my membership. Sods law, I had membership for 6 years and never used once then this happens.

No probs renegadeimp, reading back on my own post it does look very cryptic and disjointed but I wasn't expecting to give away so much information and might ask the moderator to perhaps delete this thread later. I understand now that if you are to give fair, independent advice then you need the facts in front of you just like anything else. Two questions fundamentally 1. Can I put customer names in the application form for Constructive Dismissal? These are the customers we have lied to who are all regulated by the FSA. 2. Will I get the opportunity to summarise the type of organisation this is as part of my defence/case? Such as things mentioned by me in this thread plus other issues to help build my case?

@Pusillanimous Talk of whistle-blowing sounds like I would become the scapegoat. I know its the right thing to do ethically and morally but who would look after me it backfired? I have a lawyer who is advising me and sent a 'without prejudice' mail soon after resignation to my former employer who acknowledged receipt of mail but failed to respond. My lawyer suggested that we were prepared to take this to a Tribunal for Constructive Dismissal and to the avoid litigation I would be happy to settle on x number of months pay. My lawyer suggested that they would probably call our bluff as most claimants walk away and fail to make a Tribunal application due to costs and other circumstances but thankfully my parents and brother are supporting me with my bills and lawyer fees. My issue is I'm getting cold feet even though my lawyer says we have a strong case but I want to make sure and get advice from an independent if I can name-drop Company names in my application to the Tribunal and given the opportunity to show various examples of treatment of staff, abusing the redundancy process and lying to several high profile customers.

Not me, the company identified these employees and used redundancy process to remove 3 people all from different departments. They were also using this as an opportunity to make redundant a girl in the accounts dept who was still on maternity leave until they realised they couldn't just do that. I was told on another Redundancy exercise that they were just doing this in order to get rid of one person because that person refused to make them a cup of tea!! This person was a well established member of staff who had been there since the company began trading. Sorry I meant board members would make comments about women. For instance being approached by someone and being told that I must be the only women who hasn't slept with the board members or told that if I'm that good at my job I must be good at giving oral sex too (obviously i have dumbed-down the language). I know some of the things sound surreal but I have never experienced anything like this.

16 Months

Apologies renegadeimp, due to the position I feel I'm in i'm finding it very difficult to articulate myself properly as this has had a major impact on my health. I feel paranoid that discussing something like this in depth on a public forum may somehow for whatever reason go back to my former employer. I feel isolated and wanted some advice on the Tribunal itself and would I get the adequate time to defend myself properly. All items listed were under instruction for which I have documentary evidence

BazzaS I have undertaken such actions on behalf of the company reluctantly from direct orders straight from the business owner for which I only had a few hours to prepare what would normally take weeks of version controlling and formal approval regarding the sensitivity and complexity of the documents. I have E-mail evidence As example I had to carry on the lie to a FSA regulated client on my first week about the level of compliance that had already been suggested to them prior to my employment. I have evidence for this. I would only provide allegations for which I have evidence. I'm very worried about going into any detail however I did reiterate that I was reluctant to lie but I was more concerned about the consequences if I didn't oblige. I brought this to the attention of HR two weeks before they surprisingly brought me into a meeting to accuse me of 'Gross misconduct'. The company is under two years old

I was asked by the board members to falsify several documents. In fact one of the documents falsified for the customers was created by a shareholder of the firm with my name on the front and suggested to have been created by me, I only found out about this when the same document was used as part of an information pack.

@renegadeimp They made an allegation for gross misconduct without providing any evidence, told me I was on gardening leave on full pay until my disciplinary hearing two days later. Attended hearing, was presented with a series of charges against me, I asked that these charges have to be presented to me before the hearing and so they adjourned the hearing pending a new date set by me. Requested evidence but none was forthcoming so I responded to their allegations in writing denying everything in great detail and that I felt like I was being framed. As I was scared for my job and worried about getting dismissed I decided to resign which they have accepted. I have never in my life been faced with anything like this in a career spanning 15 years and completely out of my comfort zone

I have had no choice but to resign from my employer. I have lied to customers to secure business under instruction Fabricated documentation under instruction I have been asked to find or make incriminating evidence to get someone sacked Forced to delve into electronic chats between a few co-workers to help cement the redundancy process with no HR involment Prior to out of court settlement for another collegue was asked to find information before they had to pay them off Cancelled annual leave Forced to carry over half of one years holiday into 2013 Removed a group of ethnic minority from the organisation in one redundancy process Extremely rude and insulting comments towards women These are just a fraction of the examples that I have and not prepared to go into any detail because I am fearful for my wellbeing as this company I have worked for have used the muscle of lawyers to destroy people. This has had a major impact on my health and my family, friends including co-workers want me to pursue this through to Tribunal Hearing. My worry is that I will get bullied in the court hearing as I am not a very strong minded individual and even having sought legal advice they have told me that employers can say and do what they want! I just want to know is a Tribunal fair and will I get an opportunity to relay and summarise circumstances of how the company has behaved in the past with other employees, name the customers etc If i'm going to do this then I want to be able to articulate myself the best I can Really appreciate any advice or support