Mental Health | HRD threatened 'suicidal' worker with legal action

HR is often seen as the department to go to when an employee has a problem or a concern. Confiding in the people function about anxieties, problems with management and medical problems that may impact an employees’ capacity will allow HR to put the correct support mechanisms in place to help them.

Yet, an interim HR director threatened a ‘suicidal’ NHS worker with legal action if he continued to send letters stating that he was thinking of ‘ending it all’ – The Metro reported.

The Daily Mail reported that employment judges described responses from the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust as the ‘most appalling’ they had seen.

Ambulance Mechanic, Gordon Flemming – who won his employment tribunal in February has now been awarded over £96,000 for disability discrimination, loss of earnings and unfair dismissal – suffered from a heart attack during an altercation with management in 2012 and then was off sick for the majority of time up until he was unfairly dismissed in the latter part of 2015.