The new year has prompted me to examine my career and current employment situations and I would value any advice.
I moved to a new role (financial services) six years ago and a year or so into the job, a terrible experience started with a colleague (let's call her Tracey). We were working as colleagues on the same team and her behaviour was frankly toxic towards me - jealously most likely - as Tracey also had a lot of performance issues. I had to deal with a lot of passive aggression and name calling and that kind of thing, and raised it with our mutual line manager who stepped in and had a chat with Tracey. He also changed our project leads around on the team so we worked less together, though still on the same team. Fast forward a few years, and Tracey made a formal grievance against me to say I had been both bullying and harassing her, as she was a woman.
I was dumbfounded frankly, and had to go through a very difficult ordeal including an investigation with HR that lasted months. Almost a year ago now, the grievance got completely thrown out and it was found that Tracey made everything up. That was that, and the end of it. Since then I have had to continue working alongside (thankfully not all that closely) with Tracey and there seems to have been no action taken against her and everything is carrying on "business as usual" from the company's perspective.
I am finding this increasingly irritating and unfair frankly, and am understandably concerned the same situation may happen again. Is there anything I can do here? I don't think I can continue working in this situation as it's very difficult to accept there is no consequence for the other party given the outcome, but I don't want to leave if I can pursue other avenues/redress. Could I potentially claim for constructive dismissal if I leave as Tracey wasn't disciplined in an appropriate way, leading to what I believe is an unsatisfactory resolution of the grievance? Frankly, it irks me to see Tracey's career continuing on as if nothing happened, while I am still not feeling 100% after everything that has happened over the past 5 years.
I moved to a new role (financial services) six years ago and a year or so into the job, a terrible experience started with a colleague (let's call her Tracey). We were working as colleagues on the same team and her behaviour was frankly toxic towards me - jealously most likely - as Tracey also had a lot of performance issues. I had to deal with a lot of passive aggression and name calling and that kind of thing, and raised it with our mutual line manager who stepped in and had a chat with Tracey. He also changed our project leads around on the team so we worked less together, though still on the same team. Fast forward a few years, and Tracey made a formal grievance against me to say I had been both bullying and harassing her, as she was a woman.
I was dumbfounded frankly, and had to go through a very difficult ordeal including an investigation with HR that lasted months. Almost a year ago now, the grievance got completely thrown out and it was found that Tracey made everything up. That was that, and the end of it. Since then I have had to continue working alongside (thankfully not all that closely) with Tracey and there seems to have been no action taken against her and everything is carrying on "business as usual" from the company's perspective.
I am finding this increasingly irritating and unfair frankly, and am understandably concerned the same situation may happen again. Is there anything I can do here? I don't think I can continue working in this situation as it's very difficult to accept there is no consequence for the other party given the outcome, but I don't want to leave if I can pursue other avenues/redress. Could I potentially claim for constructive dismissal if I leave as Tracey wasn't disciplined in an appropriate way, leading to what I believe is an unsatisfactory resolution of the grievance? Frankly, it irks me to see Tracey's career continuing on as if nothing happened, while I am still not feeling 100% after everything that has happened over the past 5 years.