Employer put me in debt from lies

Hello. My name is Christoffer Olsson.

I am 34 years old, live in Sweden.

I am seeking emergency funding for debts that happened because the employer at the company I worked for lied and broke an oral contract about helping me economically.

Here's my story:

I had a job at OH Elektronik AB (it's a link to the company's website) for nine years, I loved my job. I was privileged enough to be able to work with my greatest hobby.

I was employed at OH Elektronik AB under a program from the employment agency where they go in and help economically with the employer fees, to make it a little more attractive to employ me.

I got into this program because my at times issues with ADHD, Autism and severe depressions, something everyone and this play knew about and something I never his.

But they did hire me and after some time during the first month of unpaid test work, the employment agency was then disconnected entirely about a year later.

Now I was employed there for nine years where I only twice had severe depressions. One in the beginning of the employment which wasn't that bad. But the second one was really really bad.

For nine years I worked harder than most people, I was told I do the job of two sometimes three people without so much batting an eye and I got some praise for it. Then the employer started to give me more and more and more work to a point where I just stopped functioning.

I came home to my apartment one day, locked the door. Then I just fell, collapsed to the floor and I cried uncontrollably until I fell asleep. I was starting to feel like I wanted to commit suicide, to just end it all. I was so tired, I couldn't sleep and when I did sleep because i just collapsed I wouldn't wake up to external stimuli.

So I was put on sick leave. After a two months I was to start go back to work first at 25% then 50, 75 and lastly at 100%. This was done a little too fast and the workload on me was actually the same as before I crashed. Lo and behold if I didn't crash again. (I did)

In total I was on sick leave more than 365 days. And eventually came back to work again but much slower this time.

I still had large problems with my sleep, but I can't be on sick leave forever. The employer complained alot about me not being able to keep the time, when i sometimes was so tired that I wouldn't wake up from my morning alarm on my phone so came late.

Which in itself isn't an excuse I know, but I tried and tried and tried. I always failed everytime.

But employer then started to talk about if we just could get back the program I was employed under then he would be able to see between the fingers because they paid the employer fees (which if I recall is close to the same as my salary)

Basically just having me there to collect benefits.

Eventually he found out that in order to get it back i had to be laid off, and then reemployed through the program. Which to me sounds suspicious as hell.

I said IF I were to go with on that what would I do without a salary while waiting to get back into the program at the employment agency?

This is the first time he said that he can help me monetary during that time until I get unemployment benefit. As it sometimes takes some time to get into the program at the employment agency.

Instead of accepting his offer, I wanted to try again, and again, and again. He started to become more and more angry. There was NEVER any complaints about my job as i did more than everyone else, I was more productive. Even got more done each day, even when I didn't function properly.

Only the 30-60 minute late arrivals at the times when I just didn't wake up because I was so freaking tired I collapsed and slept that way. Which he also wrote me up for. I didn't really agree as he and I both knew I was broken. I didn't function. Still not recovered fully from the reasons I was on sick leave

There was also a few days where I didn't wake up at all. Unable to call in sick because, I wasn't awake at all, but I always did call in once I was able to. Still not ok, but what could I do?

After sometime he decided to just fire me, let me get back into the program and then re hire me. He used the late arrival write ups as the reason, so the union was notified and had a meeting where I mentioned that i am worried about the unemployment benefit and the time to get it. I then remembered the offer the employer up till now have given a couple of times.

The union asked the employer about it and he said "yes, we can help him economically, IF he don't at all make a legal case about the firing"

Not seeing any other options I did then accept this offer and the two persons from the union was witnesses to this (this is now a legally binding agreement in Sweden)

And the two persons from the union was witnesses to this. Which further strengthens the agreements legitimacy.

When I then one month after being laid off asked about when he will send the help as bills and rent started to come in, he then said: "no, we aren't going to give you anything. Aswell as it's been so long now without a word from you, we then decided you weren't interested in being reemployed here"

The thing is the ball about this was in the unemployment agencys ballpark, since week one of being unemployed. And I didn't know what the agency and the company talked about either. Aswell as me being completely unable to influence anything as I said the unemployment agency was still processing this, which I did relay to the company.

From that I was devastated. I trusted him. And I fell down into a REALLY bad depression where I just stopped caring, stopped doing anything. Stopped eating... I did even try to make an attempt at suicide. I never got to the deed as I for some reason got the thought that he did break a legally binding agreement. I had done MY part of the agreement and he refused to do his.

So im now going to try and sue him because the time it took until I got unemployment benefit was close to three months where I had 68 SEK to live on. I don't know how I survived, but I did. But I almost became homeless, because of close to three months with no income.

How would I be able to pay rent? Bills? Food? I wasn't. I was also applying for social benefit which took a long time to before I got any help. But they could only help with the most recent rent as they don't pay retroactively so I had to make a paymentplan about two rents and aswell during this time the loan I had from when I moved in to my apartment went unpaid aswell as other bills.

Im now indebted around 35000 SEK I think it's a little more than that.

All of this because he lied... Debt, almost commiting suicide. Loss of happiness. I still don't feel any happiness.

I no longer get unemployment benefit. Because the employment agency aswell as doctors said that I am not at the disposal of the labor market as it is right now. If I were to go out to a job I would just crash again because I'm just that broken as of now.

So I now instead get activity support which after tax is 12000 sek. Which needs to go to cat food, catsand, rent, child support, bills, paymentplans, etc.

(Food for myself I'm not really prioritizing, Cat gets food and sand for the whole month before anything else)

I have had to postpone a visit to my own son because I cannot afford it. Because everything goes to paying a constant 2-3 months lag of bills every month.

There is nothing left to pay the large debt that gone to Kronofogden (state governed agency to make sure those who needs to get paid gets paid)

I just want the company to understand what they did wrong. I won't be able to save up to a lawyer to take the company to court as long as this debt is keeping me down.

So this is why I seek emergency funding for my debt given to me because I trusted them at OH Elektronik AB.

I need to clear the debt so I can start saving money to a lawyer so I can take OH Elektronik AB to court and have the law taking a look at what he did.