I went down the grievance route while ill, I didn't want to particularly, but was going to resign and claim constructive dismissal as my terms and conditions had changed so much when I was TUPE'd from a MH charity to the Local Council. And I couldn't do that unless I'd gone down grievance route first.
Part of my grievance was that, although a risk assessment was done after I had returned to work from time off sick with work related stress, when the risk happened, no action was taken.
I didn't expect grievance to be upheld, (although thought I had a good case), and it wasn't. But by that time I had run out of energy and was deeply depressed.
So, sad to say, for people with depression it is often not even worth persuing justice, ranks close and it adds even more stress.
vicar whatever the outcome, I hope it happens soon. I found doubt and uncertainty to be v debilitating. It's like in the film Clockwise, where the John Cleese character is trying to get to somewhere and things keep going wrong, but then another way of getting there crops up but again it doesn't work - "I can cope with the disappointment. It's the hope I can't bear.'