My former employer both legally and personally mistreated, disrespected and insulted me for almost five years and it all culminated in him quite abruptly and illegally sacking me. I know for a fact that he's done all of this to those who came before me and can say with confidence that he will almost certainly do it to those who come after if I don't stand up to him.
This man pretended to be a friend to me and dangled a carrot in front of my face for five years with promises of apprenticeships, work vehicles, company fuel cards, pay increases, bonuses etc. Then unjustly threatens my job security, insults me and then sacks me suddenly with no probable cause. Normally I'd be level headed enough just to move on but this man was fully aware and apparently sympathetic to the fact that my partner and I had just bought a house and that I had just taken quite a hefty sum of money from the bank for a nice new reliable car TO GET TO WORK IN and still saw fit to treat me the way he did. He's a smart man, he knows economics well enough to know the potential this has to tear everything I have away and to me this made it personal.
So I've decided to make detailed reports of the blatant misconduct going on in his business to the relevant authorities, of which there is so, so much. I'm going after him legally for unfair dismissal, I have been told by a workplace solicitor that I have a very strong case against him and plan on hitting him hard and taking as much as I possibly can from him. I also plan on reporting his business anonymously for the various environmental regulations that he knowingly ignores (where I'm from there is BIG fines for such things, in some cases in the millions.) Not to mention he'll have to re-design and re-build his workshop! The last part of my plan is to find a platform on which I can (when the time is right) warn other potential employees to stay far, far away from this guy and his business.
Does anyone know of resources I can use for this? I cannot in good conscience just walk away from this and let him potentially do this to someone else in my position or worse, I can't help but think of the people with small children who end up in these situations. I can't stand by and let employers abuse power like this and get away with it.