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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Details have just been published of the annual uprating of compensation limits for tribunal claims and other amounts payable under employment legislation.The new amounts will apply where the relevant event occurs on or after 1 February 2009. For unfair dismissal claims for example, the appropriate date is the effective date of termination. Key increases to be aware of are as follows:The ...
News | 2 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
All, Stress does exist it is tangeable and can be an horrendous condition to suffer. As a manager I recgonise the symptoms in myself and hopefully in my team before it gets to a point where it becomes a real issue. We do this by having regular chats over coffee etc and not just about the job but also home life and as a man with an all female team this can be an interest...
Comment | 16 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
...ame that MC, possibly suffering from verbally induced stress, has decided to go. I must say in all sincerity that it's a pity that we don't have more people like Jean around doing an excellent job as an interface between management and staff. Let's hope, going back to the thread starter, that the increased levels of compensation go to the genuine cases and not the non-genuine ones usually picked up bythe media and alluded to by Marie Claire.. Have a great Christmas and a hopefully prosperous and happy 2009!
Comment | 16 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
...s one case? We all know that people pretend to be sick on a Monday or Friday in order to get long week-ends or tag days on the end of AL; this has been going on for years. As for calling it work place stress in almost epidemic proportions as you are eluding – I don’t think so. There may well be increased numbers of workplace “stress” cases which end up in tribunals, but as I said I doubt very much they have rushed into that situation for the cash! You know nothing about what I know about the subject either personally or professionally and I don’t intend to get into that here other than to ...
Comment | 6 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
...e. I am quite shocked at your aggressive response to a perfectly genuine and much discussed subject and would be worried if I had to come to any of you for genuine advice. I have asked for other peoples points of view and just got real aggression in return. My point was that I felt that cases of compensation claiming were being abused by people because it is too easy to go to a GP and ask for a note stating "STRESS AT WORK". I am far from blind and the furthest person from intolerant anyone could hope to meet. You obviously have no idea what sort of person I am because you have gone straight for the ...
Comment | 5 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Naa, not stress just passionate about apathy, deniability and feedback-blindness where those who do know or should have known that they are managing an increasingly sick workplace are prepared to actively omit to do anything. Knowingly omitting to doing something must actually make them feel a little inadiquate, to say the least, thereby contributing their own levels stress so there is no one immune to the stressors just a question of timing and last man standing.........
Comment | 20 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Perhaps House of Lords have the answer ? Lords’ ruling confirms burden of proof lies with employers 10/12/2008 'The House of Lords has ruled that in safety cases involving an injury the prosecution is under no duty to identify and prove specific acts or omissions, but the defence must show that it has managed the risk so far as is reasonably practicable. ' (Safety & Health Prtactitioner IOSH 12/12/08) Stressors and coercive cultures are both 'foreseeable' and without compliance with "reasonably practicable...
Comment | 16 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
The point is that Marie Claire said she was not talking about genuine cases - but at no point did she explain how she would tell the difference between a genuine case and someone swinging the lead. The person who decides is surely the Doctor - so why is she going on about sick-notes from Doctors? If she cannot accept a professional knows their job then what would she accept to prove it was genuine? However, she is not reading this, and there is not much point in continuing the thread.
Comment | 16 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Sorry that Marie Claire could not stand to be told, she was the one that made assumptions, but there we have it and I as a Union steward make no apology for looking after those who suffer at the hands of bullies or bad management practise. Hey ho All have a good Xmas annea
Comment | 14 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Oooh what a shame, freedom of speach is dead long live ..... All stressed out and becoming distressed as adaptive exhausted presents in irasible behaviours with little or no "Positive Regard for ALL" regardless of their contribution "non-judgmental" or otherwise. I for one put it down to stress where system overload results in anxiety impairing the abilitiy to recognise the difference between real or imagined 'threat' , the difference between difference of opinion, discussion, banter, teasing and/or spiky, sharp or snide comments. Lets 'play nice' as people clearly feeling bulli...
Comment | 13 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
well, ok, lets release all the people in jail who say they are innocent, lets not have two sides to any story, let us say all things are one sided and all go round with blinkers on and snap the heads off anyone who dares to question it then shall we? You are making out that everyone who puts in a claim for anything must be entitled to it. The whole world is 100% honest and innocent. Well, hurra...
Comment | 12 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
...der the policies which should be in place to investigate why they are stressed. They should refer them to the Occi health dept who will investigate further and then give their findings to the management. If that person through stress at work has to leave they are entitled to take the case to the tribunal for injury at work if it is indeed the employers fault usually just because they could not be bothered to take any action against the perpetrator's. Some thought needed before chipping into any discussions here I think on stress at work especially if you don't represent anyone who is going throu...
Comment | 12 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Hi, I have been reading all your comments on both this topic and the topic of bullying on the other page(which do kind of cross over). In terms of taking things personally, as we do not know one another personally, we can only be judged by, and held accountable for, our last comments. I have been both a people manager and a victim of bullying myse...
Comment | 10 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Jennifer - sad as it is you are not alone but please try to hang in there I am sure things will improve. The most importand thing is that you made the right decision for you. Perhaps you could now use this time to upgrade your skills by whatever mode you can that wont cost anything so that when the time is right you can take advantage. I believe in fate and...
Comment | 10 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Carole, this is a prime example of you not reading or understanding my comments properly. I, at no time did I ever say that I was in HR. I am not and never would be. I was not looking for a fight, I wanted views or ideas, THATS ALL. Everyone seems to be taking this personally, I wouldnt dream of commenting in such an aggressive way about your personal issues. I have no knowledge of your plights and no right to comment on your personal circumstances, I am not critisising anyone else on their circumstances and wish well to all those with a genui...
Comment | 10 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Oh dear, stress will remain one of those foreseeable risks so long as it continues to be remain a "subjective issue" as until it can be objectively measured when reasonably practicable prevention, working conditions and/or spycho-social mitigators, will have to be adopted. It's alright, as there are those out there who are working on developing an "objective" range of 'occupation...
Comment | 10 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
... the current tax year, when my savings will no doubt have run out. Shame isn't it? After I have worked solidly since July 1966 when I left school without any breaks for babies and such other luxuries as others could apparently afford. Maybe I was even in a position where I could have gone to a tribunal - I seriously have no idea - I certainly didn't want any MORE stress! I don't want anyone's pity or anything - I've always solved my own problems, that's what I was brought up to do. However that does leave one in the position where one doesn't have the slightest idea what to do when one can't...
Comment | 9 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
I really do appreciate the helpful comments that have been posted. I do appreciate that there are very genuine cases of stress at work. I have worked since I was 17 years old and am now 44. I have seen and heard a lot of things and I am not blind to genuine reasons for sickness and absence from work. I am purely talking about the non genuine cases. These cases, as in the non genuine claimants for insurance etc., cost this country a fortune, and no-one can tell me that every insurance claim for theft, breakage or injury is genuine. The same ...
Comment | 8 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Stress does not happen overnight . Years of bullying take their toll and eventually you break down. I was off with stress for 11 months, I did not take my case to a tribunal as I could not face the anxiety and as the Union solicitors work on a no win no fee basis they are not interested in complex cases. Some days I contemplated suicide rather than going to work. My manager has got away with years off bullying. The grievance that I made against him was not upheld or...
Comment | 6 Dec 2008
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Increased tribunal compensation limits to come into force
Thank you Craig, very well thought out answer. And Marie Claire, re-read what you have written, it does come across as someone trying to win a fight, or start one. Unfortunately there are vast differences in how employers treat their staff, for instance some work with union representatives in an attempt to have a smooth running happy workforce, whilst some employers would have secret meetings with managers to 'remove' someone tha...
Comment | 6 Dec 2008
