Comments on: Swinging the lead or not, that is the question, whether tis… http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/swinging-the-lead-or-not-that-is-the-question-whether-tis/ Exclusively Employment Law Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Philip http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/swinging-the-lead-or-not-that-is-the-question-whether-tis/#comment-1738 Philip Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:57:10 +0000 http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/swinging-the-lead-or-not-that-is-the-question-whether-tis/#comment-1738 It's a difficult one. We see both sides-employer and employee. Sometimes those perspectives are the same, other times they are poles apart. What can't be disputed is that some employees do play the stress card too easily on the one hand, on the other hand some employers should be more sympathetic to genuine cases of stress. It’s a difficult one. We see both sides-employer and employee. Sometimes those perspectives are the same, other times they are poles apart.

What can’t be disputed is that some employees do play the stress card too easily on the one hand, on the other hand some employers should be more sympathetic to genuine cases of stress.

]]> By: Jacqui Rafferty http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/swinging-the-lead-or-not-that-is-the-question-whether-tis/#comment-1737 Jacqui Rafferty Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:50:34 +0000 http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/swinging-the-lead-or-not-that-is-the-question-whether-tis/#comment-1737 As someone who with a history of depression, which I am currently self-managing, I find this message disheartening. Often when people walk in 'a fit of pique' there has been a history, often with the person suffering prolonged stress. People with depression don't often recognise it in themselves. Employers and managers need to have depression awareness training and informnation on how to develop a mentally healthy workplace. Perhaps then we wouldn't be reading such messages. After all, mental illness is not a lifestyle choice. If one in five people have depression at sometime in their life, you can bet there are a lot in the workplace, afraid to own up because of the associated stigma. As someone who with a history of depression, which I am currently self-managing, I find this message disheartening. Often when people walk in ‘a fit of pique’ there has been a history, often with the person suffering prolonged stress. People with depression don’t often recognise it in themselves. Employers and managers need to have depression awareness training and informnation on how to develop a mentally healthy workplace. Perhaps then we wouldn’t be reading such messages. After all, mental illness is not a lifestyle choice. If one in five people have depression at sometime in their life, you can bet there are a lot in the workplace, afraid to own up because of the associated stigma.

]]> By: Gary http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/swinging-the-lead-or-not-that-is-the-question-whether-tis/#comment-500 Gary Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:23:36 +0000 http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/swinging-the-lead-or-not-that-is-the-question-whether-tis/#comment-500 Never suffered from stress have we then. Never suffered from stress have we then.

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