STRESS AT WORK COMPENSATION CLAIM SOLICITORS

Employers are legally responsible for maintaining a healthy and safe work environment. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1973 effectively states that employers must take into consideration work related stress, assess the factors contributing to it and reduce the risks that could result from it. Measures that should be taken include transferring and spreading of worker responsibilities, shifting or rotating the more stressful duties to lessen workers’ time spent on a particularly stressful job together with obtaining employee feedback to address their complaints in order to minimise stress when at work. Failure to look after an employee’s mental health can result in a stress at work compensation claim. There are defined rules for claiming damages in this situation, established following a number of stress at work compensation claims heard by the Appeal Court over the last 20 years. If you believe that your employers behaviour has caused or contributed to your depression or anxiety you should contact us to discuss you potential stress at work compensation claim.

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Stress at work is inevitable. Even if a particular job is generally non-problematic there will be occasions where there is a stressful situation and at one point or another everyone has to deal with stress at work. Notwithstanding that, there are of course limits and exposure to too much pressure, especially over a long period of time, can adversely affect an employee’s physical well being. Chronic stress can lead to psychological problems including a specific acute time-limited reactive disorder, involving symptoms of anxiety and depression otherwise known as a nervous breakdown. Stress can also affect a person’s physical health by contributing to high blood pressure and it is also linked to alcoholism and nicotine addiction. All of these conditions represent a personal injury that can be compensated in a stress at work compensation claim.

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Our solicitors use the no win no fee scheme and compensation is paid with no deductions. You do not have to pay for any legal fees during the entire course of the legal proceeding. Our solicitors will give you a free consultation without further obligation so you can assess whether you want to claim or not. Just call our helpline, email us, or fill out the information form.