Work Related Stress - Sick Leave – Redundancy

wait for lawyer's advice or look on ACAS website as there is lots of useful info on redundancy.

was the one person's opinion your or the counsellors that they ignored???

The selection criteria for redundancy must be transparent and reasonable. Criteria include things like attendance, meeting performance targets, appraisal reports, disciplinary action etc...

Likewise, grievances must be addressed in a transparent and reasonable way.

If you raise work place bullying as the root of ill health and have medical reports which confirm this and in response you are ignored and then fired, management are opening themselves up to a host of claims.

Mismanagement of procedures, which are put in place to ensure a fair process, are viewed dimly by tribunals. A company cannot successfully argue that incomplete, secretive and unfounded behaviour which results in damaging an employee's health is justified. The worse they behave towards you the better it is for any claim.

The question is how much do you need a reference?

Hawksmuir wrote: »

I didn't know GP's were qualified to diagnose work related stress, as surely they are only taking your word for it, and there is no thorough diagnosis of your workplace made by the gp.

Just a thought.

Your GP will be able to determine if you are clinically suffering from stress, and during a conversation with the patient, any GP should be able to determine at least one cause of the stress that has been presented in the surgery.

If the predominant topic of that conversation is issues / problems in the workplace, it is reasonably likely that the GP will state work-related stress on a sick-note.

If that stress is caused by related issues at home or elsewhere, then it may well say stress-related illness on the sick-note.