How to report employer who fires people in illegal ways?
My employer has recently changed managers, and the new manager is on a power trip. He hired way too many staff, to a point of being overstaffed by double our size, so in order to fix that he is "firing" original staff that has been there. He is firing pretty much everyone that recently earned a raise for being there over a year, and is coming up with fake excuses.
Instead of directly firing people, he is "suspending" them. He doesn't give us a length of time, and excuses are literally anything he can come up. Recently my girlfriend was suspended because "he heard someone read she posted something bad on Facebook" but provided no proof or examples as to what she said. She was suspended for 3 weeks so far, and now is taken off the schedule entirely. She was doing her job correctly, kept to herself, and wasn't causing trouble. Ever since she has been gone our guests (customers) have shown concern because she was such a great worker.
This happened to 3 people so far and once being removed from the schedule, they all filed for unemployment. When they did that, it was denied because our employer is saying "they resigned" from the job, when they didn't at all. We report this to the manager and he makes up excuses as to them resigning for "not caring about the job."
We were fed up with this so we took it to our companies HR which will do absolutely nothing. She simply says "what they say is true no matter what."
So I'm asking is their a government office or someone we can go to, to report all of them? It's worth noting we've caught them all doing illegal things in other areas too...... I'm fearing for my job since we have bills to pay and can't collect unemployment until they wise up and admit we are fired, but instead I'll just be thrown on indefinite suspension....
We are the in United States, and there isn't anything more to it. The employer is reporting everyone has resigned, as they "look bad" to the owners if 10 people randomly got fired. I only really communicate with the 3 that recently were "suspended" aka "Fired." However they have laid off more and have said all of them resigned.
It's fine,I was just curious if anything can be done to their unfair practices. I'll just report their other illegal activities, and "behind the scenes" stuff they do, to the owners and hope karma says hello.