I was a model employee for bellmore transportation for over 2 years. I witnessed many unjust and wrongful firings of employees there, when business was slow, during my time of employment. I never thought it would happen to me almost the same way. I was asked to come in and work on my day off so i went the extra mile and hired a babysitter for my daughter and went to work. I was asked to get in a certain vehicle and pickup a client in manchester, nh and take them to fenway park ( i am a chauffeur by trade). I got my paperwork and radio just like i have done over 2 years and was about 4-5 miles away from the office when i started to smell a burning electrical odor coming from underneath the dash into the front of the car. The owner who is always a hot head about everything due to multiple lawsuits he is facing, i knew would not be happy but he was not the dispatcher so i called into the office to dispatch and expressed my safety concern with the car. The dispatcher paused after he started to speak and then the owner, mike bellmore, of bellmore transportation got on the radio and said bring the f'n car back, i will do the job myself, and when i got back, i was fired for: Refusing to do my job and complaining, which when i applied for unemployment, he fought it and won because the unemployment hearings officer construed i was insubordinate and referenced an rsa that describes this. I read the rsa law online and by no means does my concern with a safety issue fall under this law and this was the unemployment hearings officer's own conclusion even after the owner at the hearing was caught in lies about the firing and even wrote (documented with copies) i was fired for refusing to do my job which isnt accurate because not only was i already in the act of doing my job but was not even given the chance to be put in a nother vehicle which he had 5 of in the lot when i got back because business was so slow. I did a lot of research on this and he has a pattern of conduct when it gets slow, of firing employees that are premium paid, such as i was, who have a weeks paid vacation, to save money and then fight paying unemployment by malicious claims of insubordination. I was a private investigator for 15 years and i have obtained 4 witnesses that are former employees who all were unjustly fired under very similar circumstances, one of which was a night manager and dispatcher who was with the company for over 12 years ! I wish to take this to superior court which according to umemployment i have a right to do. I filed an appeal with doe in manchester to have the case reopened due to witnesses not available at the time of the hearing and fraud commited/mistakes made concering the lies which the hearing officer caught mr. Bellmore in. I am owed well over $3,000 dollars right now by unemployment and know 100% in my heart that if it goes before a "real" judge, the questions of law would be clear. Reporting a safety concern with a vehicle you are driving does not constitute an rsa captioned by unemployment to save the state money, stating insubordination ! Lastly, i have lived in this state for over 20 years and never, not once, needed to collect unemployment nor have i ever received any type of monetary assistance and the one time i need to file, this is how the state avoids paying unemployment? Please feel free to call me at 603-216-4360. I am a single father with a 10 year old daughter and i have never been more frightened in my life about the situation i am in and desperately want justice in this case. I have even put the company down for a reference and was given a bed one because i had a hearing when he fought paying unemployment. This guy is a toilet of a human being but a very rich one and i almost feel he is paying someone off at the unemploment center because he has never paid unemployment in his 25 years in business and has come back bragging (when i was employed) to the office that he has one 18 cases straight and that he is untouchable at the doe .

Best regards,


roger c.

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That's awful. I had scumbag bosses too. I got laid off but at least they let me get unemployment. Probably only because the place was unionized. Otherwise they might have been able to get away with not paying into the system.

Could you try suing him in small claims court? The limit in my state is $5000.