Victimisation at work.

[vetran]

Agree its time to involve HR, the ex manager may still be available and suggest a strategy informally.
Area manager is a good call.

She must have been doing this before, these people normally have history. HR will know and may have moved her for this reason, whilst they won't tell you if you mention it they may take action.

I would be nervous about going down the time off for stress route so young. It's difficult enough to get a job now without adding potential barriers.

Key thing is to do something now and if possible get even without being unprofessional.

assuming your son isn't supporting a family he has an opportunity to take some employment chances. Get to HR make an official complaint with suitable evidence and also go get another job. If you have a complaint in one hand and a new job in the other most companies will be unnerved.

[IR35FanClub]

If this is not your lads planned carrer path - then just treat it as a temp job and get out there. That's what I've always done (when I was younger).

However, stick the knife in her and give it a good twist on the way out of the door. I've helped friends & family write cataclysmic mails a few times over my life. Specifically in this type of situation. The thing is a) you need your son to be on the internal email system to cc: whoever he needs (not the whole company! LOL) b) don't get abusive, just list the facts from your side. If he can't do that - then he needs to memo to her superiors and peers and subordinates.

Actually when I say don't get abusive - that doesn' mean you can't make the humouros and belittling. As that is what I'd call the revenge factor. Just keep the language so that it sound like the writing of a sane and educated person who is using reasonable logic to explain their actions.

Your son then gets to resign with dignity and if she ever tries it again everyone in the company will remember her history. Just don't let him walk away quietly.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

Then I realised she had a lovely pair of tits, so I started being extra nice to her, which got her off my back at least. She even came over and joined me for lunch yesterday.

Wasn't this delectable young lady was it DS?

(Ever so slightly NSFW)

[Doggy Styles]

Good grief, Malc!