Is it possible to complain about an employer anonymously and how to do it?

Greetings, my readers! Today we will talk about a rather sensitive issue. I am almost one hundred percent sure that every working Russian has encountered such a problem, but did not know how to solve it.

So, the topic of the next material is where to file a complaint against an employer anonymously.

Agree that openly expressing your dissatisfaction with the employer’s behavior and complaining to the labor inspectorate will only lead to an aggravation of the situation at work, which is not at all necessary if you do not intend to quit.

But is it possible to file a complaint against an employer without providing your personal data? This is a question to which the answer is not entirely clear to many busy citizens.

So, I myself did not complain, but in the legal field I came across a similar story and, as they say, I will help as much as I can. I will share my personal impressions and knowledge in this area.

Where to go for help

The situation with violation of the rights of an employee is very sensitive, you can cope with it yourself, but there is no guarantee that after the conflict is resolved, the boss will not take vindictive measures in the form of a penalty, reprimand or dismissal. The Labor Code provides for the possibility of bringing an unscrupulous boss to justice by filing a complaint with the relevant authorities. There are several organizations where you can turn for help:

• An employee can always write a statement to the labor dispute commission or trade union. These organizations are obliged to take control of the matter and hold the leader accountable.
• You can also always use the help of a government lawyer, who will not only draw up a complaint, but also send it to the right authority, the tax or prosecutor’s office.
• If it is possible to contact a private office, then this is also an excellent option, since bar associations, first of all, care about the interests of their clients and will help you correctly compose a letter; the anonymous complaint will be sent to the address.
• You can get practical advice from a qualified specialist online directly on the website. Regardless of the time of day, a lawyer will help you deal with the most difficult situation.

Important: If you have encountered injustice and violation of civil rights, you should not leave everything as it is, the situation may worsen further, it is better to take action in time and defend your truth.

Where can you complain if your employer forces you to work in quarantine?

If Moscow employers violate self-isolation requirements, employees have the right to complain to the State Labor Inspectorate of the capital or the prosecutor's office. You can also go to the city court to collect the payments due and compensation for moral damage.

To Rostrud

The State Labor Inspectorate in Moscow provides legal assistance to workers who find themselves in difficult situations. The department accepts applications by mail and in person.

During self-isolation, it is advisable to use the online reception and file a complaint without leaving home. A hotline is also available .

The Moscow GIT website offers the following options for submitting online applications:

• Request advice on labor legislation through the State Services portal;
• Report a violation through the website “Onlineinspektsiya.rf”;
• Send an appeal through the “Public Reception” of Rostrud;
• on the department's website page.

Upon receipt of a complaint, an unscheduled inspection is carried out. If the employer’s actions reveal signs of an offense, he will be punished for failure to comply with the self-isolation regime. The fine is imposed under Article 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and ranges from 50,000 to 70,000 rubles.

To the Moscow prosecutor's office

The prosecutor's office is responsible for overseeing compliance with labor laws by all employers. Residents of the capital can submit an appeal through the department’s website. You will need to fill out an electronic form and attach documents.

When choosing a prosecutor's office, you should indicate “prosecutor's office of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation . In the column that opens, you need to find “Moscow City Prosecutor’s Office” . Next, you need to clarify the prosecutor's office, taking into account the specific administrative district in which the citizen lives or works. For example, you can complain about a violation to the prosecutor’s office in the South-Eastern, Western, North-Western and other districts.

After the citizen has decided on the supervisory authority, the following information is filled in:

• About the author (full name, region in which the rights were violated);
• Author's contacts (postal address, email, telephone);
• Subject and text of the appeal (you will need to attach documents).

Finally, the citizen confirms that the information has been filled out correctly and sends the documents to the supervisory authority for review.

The prosecutor's office conducts an inspection and, if violations are identified, issues an order to the employer to eliminate them.

To the Moscow City Court

If an employee is hired to work during quarantine, wages may not be paid in full. In such a situation, you should apply to the Moscow City Court with a statement of claim.

According to information posted on the website of the court, the acceptance of express documentation has been suspended. You can submit documents by Russian post or through the Unified Information Portal of the Courts of General Jurisdiction of Moscow.

Currently, the court considers cases of an urgent nature, as well as simplified and writ proceedings. Before the court hearing, visitors' temperatures are taken. Entry into the building is strictly permitted with a mask and gloves.

In what situations can you resort to an anonymous complaint?

Where to complain about an employer? The most active body in regulating violations of the rights of existing employees and job seekers is the Labor Inspectorate - Rostrud. Every citizen can file a complaint against an employer. Service employees must review the application and begin pre-trial proceedings. If the facts of an offense are confirmed, the case may be sent to the magistrate's court for further proceedings and bringing the employer to justice.

The most common infringements of rights:

• Non-payment or delay of salary.
• Refusal to provide paid leave.
• Unconditional and inconsistent salary reduction.
• Intentional concealment of an industrial accident.
• Introduction of penalties into the labor process.
• Failure to comply with safety requirements for work activities.
• Non-compliance of the workplace with the requirements of the contract.
• Violation of an employment agreement.
• Unjustified dismissal.
• Unlawful reduction.

Important: You cannot contact the labor inspectorate anonymously, but you can ask for non-disclosure of personal data during the proceedings.

Why and to whom is it necessary to file a complaint anonymously - what kind of complaint is considered anonymous?

Anonymous complaints are submitted to regulatory, supervisory authorities and bodies that can conduct inspections, stop the commission of crimes or illegal acts, and bring them to justice.

An anonymous complaint can be submitted without specifying personal and contact information for the following purposes:

1. To report an impending, committed or ongoing crime. It may involve one person or several.
2. To indicate an attacker who is attempting or has already committed an illegal act. This also applies to officials.
3. To report corruption and bribery.
4. To notify of a crime committed by an official or municipal or civil servant who took advantage of his official position.
5. To notify about an impending or completed terrorist act or terrorist threat.
6. To suppress illegal actions, for example, on the part of the employer, and bring him to justice.
7. To report an unfavorable situation that has developed in a locality, in order to encourage the authorities to solve existing problems.
8. To notify authorities and authorities about any important information.

How to write an anonymous complaint to the prosecutor's office, labor inspectorate, police, tax inspectorate, and the President of the Russian Federation - examples of anonymous complaints

Of course, authors express their emotions in anonymous complaints. It is worth understanding that anonymity does not mean lack of culture and illiteracy. The applicant must file a complaint in an official manner .

The anonymity of the document will be due to the non-provision of personal information.

Data that anonymous authors do not contribute:

1. FULL NAME.
2. Passport details.
3. Phone number.
4. Postal address, including zip code.
5. Email address.

The absence of this information will indicate that the author of the complaint is anonymous.

What you need to know when filing a complaint

The complaint must be drawn up in the form prescribed by current legislation. To complete an application, you must provide the following information:

• Indicate the details of the labor inspectorate to which the appeal is sent.
• Details of the company or enterprise where the offense occurred.
• Personal data of the applicant or applicants.
• It is necessary to indicate the type of offense, referring to the articles of current laws.
• It is also worth indicating visible or acceptable ways to resolve the controversial issue.
• It is necessary to attach additional documents that will serve as evidence in violations.
• You may also need a copy of the employment agreement, work record book, and passport of the applicant.

Important: Either one employee or several employees collectively can write a complaint to the labor inspectorate.

Application example

Reasons

According to the laws described in the labor code, an employee can write a complaint against his employer if:

• is provided with work that does not correspond to his position and which is not stipulated by the employment contract;
• there is a delay in the payment of wages or their payment is not in full;
• provided a workplace that does not meet the standards and is dangerous for his life;
• did not provide social insurance.
• refused to sign an application for vacation (permitted to have not yet gone on vacation this year).
• other violations related to the work process.

Not only its employee, but also any other citizen who believes that he was illegally denied a job has the right to file a complaint against the employer.

Ways to inform the labor inspectorate

Anonymous complaints will not be considered by the labor inspectorate, but this does not mean that everyone will know the name of the applicant. If an employee of the company where the offense occurred does not want to disclose his data, he can attach a letter to the application with a request to maintain confidentiality, which will be taken into account by the inspectors at the time of the inspection. A complaint against an employer must be made in accordance with the form, otherwise it will not be considered.

Ways to file a complaint against an employer with the labor inspectorate:

• The letter can be delivered personally to the inspector.
• The application can be sent by mail.
• There is also an online complaint system.

Important: Any submitted document with relevant data is registered in the system and is considered without fail.

How to write a request correctly

Depending on where you need to contact, you can choose how to do this: orally or in writing. The oral format is provided for contacting a helpline, where you do not need to provide your name and other information.

A written complaint also requires attention when drafting. Moreover, it is advisable to attach additional documents to the paper confirming the information contained in the complaint.

The style of the complaint should be strict and formal, and the document should clearly follow the sequence of events that occurred and indicate the date and location of the incident. There is no need to sign an anonymous complaint. It is allowed to indicate someone else's name, but the date must be entered.

When filing a complaint online, the prepared text is entered into a special form, but it should be remembered that the user has a character limit. The rest of the compilation principle is similar, except that attachments are attached to the message in the form of scanned copies.

The period for consideration of the application is no more than 30 days, after which a decision is made on further actions.

Benefits of online application

Submitting an application through the online inspection website is very convenient. The system simplifies the task as much as possible; on the website you can file complaints against the employer on basic issues, which will speed up the work of the inspector. Also, an online application is most acceptable if confidentiality is maintained; to do this, you just need to check the required box and do not have to write a letter requesting anonymity.

Important: When filing an application via the Internet, the complaint is considered within 30 days from the date of filing. The applicant receives notifications about the progress of the proceedings.

What is the responsibility for disclosing information about the applicant?

Current legislation does not provide for either criminal or administrative liability for government officials who disclose the applicant’s data. In addition, it is worth understanding that the request to maintain confidentiality is not always feasible in practice. Even if the inspection officer fulfills the applicant’s request, when conducting an inspection, he requests documents, a list of which can easily reveal the identity of the complainant.

In order to protect his rights before the employer, an employee who finds himself in a difficult situation will have to choose:

• send anonymous requests to the department with the expectation that they will be considered;
• be ready to argue openly with the employer, prove you are right, but lose your job;
• seek the services of a qualified lawyer.

General information on a complaint against a boss

A complaint is recognized as an official document, which entails the emergence of certain rights and obligations. Therefore, when compiling it, you should adhere to the following rules of business communication and correspondence:

• compose your requirements correctly and without errors;
• It is unacceptable to use obscene and slang words, as well as insults directed at anyone;
• describe the situation as accurately as possible, but at the same time succinctly;
• words and expressions with a “double” meaning should not be used;
• all data must be reliable (dates, numbers, numbers, addresses, etc.);

Make sure your speech is correct, follow the rules of syntax and punctuation. Competent speech is one of the most important conditions when conducting business correspondence.

Refusal to consider

A complaint that contains the following points with a 99% probability will not be considered at all:

1. If it is written in a foreign language;
2. If it is written by hand, but it is impossible to understand what exactly is contained there;
3. Has no proof;
4. Has incorrect expressions.

Important! If the complaint contains information that does not correspond to reality, and therefore is false. This may result in penalties in accordance with the law, which will be addressed to the person who wrote the complaint.

If the information is false and affects data that entails many authorities, then the person can be forcibly searched. For example, they say that one of the establishments may be mined, all the authorities immediately gather there, but this information is false.

Communication with the prosecutor's office

This authority also considers violations of the personal and labor rights of citizens.

Here are just some of the reasons when appeals are made directly to the prosecutor’s office:

• delay of vacations or salaries;
• insults;
• sexual harassment;
• assault.

After the prosecutor's office accepts the appeal, an official inspection is carried out for the organization. If violations are identified, the manager will be obliged to correct them. The responsible officials are subject to appropriate liability.

The reason for contacting, for example, may be an attempt to hide important information. This usually concerns accidents.

For information on the technique of writing a complaint to law enforcement agencies, see here:

Review and response timeframes

The legislation stipulates that no more than 1 calendar month should pass from the receipt of a complaint to its detailed consideration. If the complaint concerns illegal dismissal, then the period for consideration of the application is limited to 10 days.

After checking the application, Gov. The inspectorate must conduct an unscheduled inspection of the organization against which the complaint was received. Then a decision is made with an order to the management of this company to correct the violations by a certain date.

Expert opinion

When a person applies for a service that is provided to him within the framework of the law or in return for an additional fee, he certainly expects a positive result and quality service. It is when this chain is broken that a person thinks about a complaint, which, in his opinion, can resolve all the omissions and conflicts that have arisen.

This is true, but not all citizens can openly express their opinion, so they resort to an anonymous complaint. There is nothing like that here, the citizen is simply afraid of the consequences that may arise after writing a complaint. Just before sending a complaint, you should make sure whether it will be considered by this body if it does not have contact information.

Sometimes anonymous requests are made not only by adults, but also by children who need help, in which case it costs us a lot of effort to find the author and provide qualified assistance. Therefore, I would like to say that there is no need to be afraid of the consequences, since this is punishable from the side that will exercise influence on the author.

Russian statesman and public figure, human rights activist. Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Yurievna Kuznetsova

Common mistakes

Mistake No. 1: Silence of violation of the law by a certain person or government body.

Comment: Unfortunately, this is one of the common mistakes that in one way or another affect your future fate. Let's consider an example that almost every person has encountered, but some were silent, while others prevented it. The basis is a bribe, especially if it concerns public sector specialists such as police officers, health care and education. A person takes a bribe for services and then continues to work, where he takes bribes in larger quantities and so on higher and higher, until there is a caring person who will write a complaint and management will take certain measures against this specialist.

What should it include

The appeal includes four main parts (Table 1).

You should also not forget about document attachments, which often require attaching a number of documents. In special cases, an application may also be rejected if a number of important documents are missing.

Video about the intricacies of filing a complaint to the authorities:

Collective complaint

A document drawn up on behalf of a group, and not by one person, is a collective complaint . It is also written to the head of the department.

Such an appeal has a high status in the eyes of the authorities, so there is a high chance of its satisfaction, and also will not blame one specific person.

Collective complaints are considered by inspectors first . An audit is carried out to find out all the details of workers’ dissatisfaction with their superiors. If employees have made a complaint that corresponds to reality, then it will not be difficult for inspectors to identify the violation.

A collective complaint is a sign of serious problems in the organization.

It must be said that a collective complaint is rare. This is explained by the fact that among the employees there will certainly be those who are afraid of retaliatory sanctions from management. Therefore, it is important to have a preliminary conversation with the team. This is important for the complaint to be more effective. More subscribers – greater effect.

It is important to compose it correctly.

Structure:

• address, name and details of the regulatory authority (for example, labor inspectorate);
• listing the full names of the applicant employees and their positions;
• document header “collective complaint against the boss”;
• main text. It lists the offenses, as well as the articles of law that were violated;
• requirements;
• a list of documents that are attached to the complaint;
• date, signatures of all employees.

The document must indicate the contact details of the employee representative.

Sample collective complaint against the boss.doc

Where can I complain?

The main thing is to correctly indicate the addressee. Typically, this function is performed by a control body, the head of an enterprise, or the head of a specific department. Only if the recipient is correctly identified will the complaint be promptly considered, and the process itself will not raise questions.

There are the following authorities that have the right to accept documents:

• senior management;
• court;
• Labour Inspectorate;
• prosecutor's office