Work induced stress.

A question about : Work induced stress.

Hello I was looking for some advice as I am at a loss what to do. I have been working for the same organisation for a year and a half and from the start have been open about my history of depression since starting, telling my supervisor, my deputy manager and manager (silly levels of management). About a year ago my deputy manager started making awful comments to me and on speaking up was subsequently threatened with my job by manager for having done so.

After a similar incident in tears I went to HR and a told that they would seek a informal resolution...this never helped and in the following months my health detiriated and I began to be sick from work for short amounts of time. HR sent me to the company's doctor and the report said that the reasonable allowance for my disability would be for the situation with my manages to be sorted. HRs response was to force me to submit a formal complaint. I have been lucky enough to have an amazing union rep. They found that it had not been bullying or harassment but that they know all the incidents happened but the department is institutionalised. i asaid that i I just wanted to stop being made ill from work and that was the whole purpose of the complaint and they saidthat I can't expect everything to fix its self come Monday. We have decided to appeal but hr would not release the report of the complaint to us but now they have it is clear that the three layers of management have just stuck together.

I went to the doctors this morning and have now been sighned off for two weeks because of depression and work related stress. I am angry that knowing my condition they have put me through this complaints procedure and find it hard to imagine having to work under them again. I really don't know what to do...whether it is now worth the appeal as they have proven they are not objective.

I believe they have a legal obligation to make the reasonable adjustments specified by the doctors but they just haven't done anything other than asking me to make the complaint and now it's been two months and I'm in this situation.

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