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Paul Barker
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Hello everyone. I have a complicated situation here. I am very ill at the moment, and I notified my employer back in November that my illness could be terminal. In a meeting with my boss and someone from HR, they offered all the support that they could. In my line of business I am the business manager and then below me I have five Assistant Managers. I have had to take time off work to attend hospital appointments and for treatment etc, and the business has now ended up with a huge stock deficit that I am now being blamed for, even though I have put things in place to stop this hapening. I took three weeks off work due to ill health and in that time the stock deficits ran upto 1% of total sales of the business. Every little thing that I do now is scrutinised as this, along with my health, is placing a huge amount of pressure on me to the point of last month getting panic attacks due to the pressure that I am under and last week in my early thirties I suffered a minor stroke brought on by stress and high blood pressure. I have thought of resigning, but I do not see why I should resign my job after 10 years with the firm. Should my employer not be doing everything they can to help me at work, rather than putting pressure on me that they know will hurt me in some way? Can anyone give me anymore advice? It is bad enough being ill, without my employer helping things along.
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James Fairchild
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Paul,
It sounds like things have degenerated to the extent that a solicitor would be useful for you. In the meantime, http://www.armchairadvice.co.uk is a good support website for employees.
Do look after yourself as best you can, try to ignore this as much as possible.
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Andrew Graham-Cumming
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It would seem reasonable for you to ask HR if they have considered obtaining occupational health advice. Without that advice they seem unlikely to develop an understanding of the potential impact of your health condition on your work or of your work on your health. They also need to consider possible issues of disability discrimination. It is difficult to see how the Company can ensure that you are being treated fairly without taking such advice. There may well be scope for adjustments in your pattern of work that could overcome the problems that have arisen.
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