What can I do if a colleague makes false allegations against me?

What can you do if a colleague makes false allegations against me?

Remziye Ozcan, a specialist employment solicitor at Slater and Gordon Lawyers, explains the steps that you should take in the event that a colleague raises a false allegation against you.

Transcript:

If you find that a colleague has made false or malicious allegations about you at work it can be a very stressful time, so the first thing to do is work out exactly what’s been said and get full details of what’s happened so that you can start preparing your response and your defence to those complaints.

At this point if it’s very obviously false or very obviously malicious in terms of significant inconsistencies in something that’s happened at work it’s really important to check if there are other people that can verify what your position is and what your story is compared to your colleague’s.

At that point you may wish to raise a grievance yourself against that colleague for the way they are treating you and the way that they’re making false allegations about you. You might want to consider raising a grievance against your employer if you feel the way that they’ve handled the grievance against you is unfair or unreasonable or if you’ve actually got any concerns about any particular discriminatory treatment of you and any suspicious underlying reasons about the grievance being brought against you in the first place. At that point you can raise your own grievance both against the individual and also against your employer.

[marcomarky]

People already know this...however nothing ever gets resolved. Your told to go back to work as "matter is closed" . You cannot argue defamation at ET only bullying and harassment. If argued in civil court it is more expensive with legal fees irrespective to winning or losing. Regardless cases get released online for all nosey parkers to view and confidentiality is breached, worse when the case is bodged. If you continue working bad atmosphere remains. A law needs to be introduced to protect employees from defamation at work, if not only option left is to leave. Very bad system currently considering defamation was classed criminal act up until 2009. The only solution to preserve job is to be a robot at work due to potential unpredictable behaviour by colleagues...sad but true. Legal system needs to wake up to this...fast

[trecris]

I have recently been falsely accused by my coworker of calling my supervisor a racist.. She alleges I made these comments to her in which we were having a conversation about different things that was going on in the workplace. Because of the heightened climate with racism in this country I feel that she is maliciously trying to cause dissention, panic, incite racial tention in the workplace. What can I do if it was just the coworker and myself in the room at the time? How can I prove that it was said by the coworker and not me. It's her work against mine.

[mathisnotforthefaintofheart]

I have been there, I have gone through it and I lucked out when I look back. Pence Rule ever since. It's not only prudent, it's safe. At work it's all business and I don't talk any more than what's needed and whatever extra we talk is only with a specific number of male coworkers whom I happen to know for a good amount of time.

[joyofliving]

Does this work in Australia too? e.g. lodging a grievance/complaint of slander, false accusation?

[Scottwillow]

I’m going through this now and need help ASAP

[VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer]

If a colleague makes a false accusation....
Sue them to hell and back for all damages
Easy...

[lapatabelluda]

I have. Question some girl at work accuse me of harassment and I was out under investigation by hr with out getting. Paid and they put me on this room I told them I haven’t spoke to that person in almost a month in fact I stop talking to her and she was the one trying to talk to me but I didn’t want problems so all of the sudden she put a complain on me and I was waiting for them to investigate me 😢 I took a month then hr call me that I was clear that I could go back to work but not to the same place they would send me other place to work but I don’t know what happen that they never call me back so I never bother to call them because I was traumatize with all this I never ever got in any kind of problems but been in a room all that traumatize me specially when you telling this ppl you didn’t do it and they keep on pushing you and threat you that you will end up in court smh my question is could I sue the person who make that false accusation and the county and the company ? Also I wasn’t getting any lunch

[davidgleeson]

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