Stress at work

[turkeysandwich]

To cut a long story short, I am currently absent from work due to work related stress and have been for 3 weeks. This follows on from me raising a grievance, then a stage two grievance. There has been no response to either. I am now on anxiety tablets.

My union are involved and are also trying to get a response.

I have been advised by management that they will not respond to my grievance until I return to work.

I do not wish to return to work until my grievance is resolved, so I am in a catch 22 position.

The first grievance was lodged 4 months ago, i think this is quite long enough.

The stage two grievance was lodged a few weeks ago.

My grievance relates to pay and conditions - they have been underpaying me consistently. My workload is also too much.

They are also now talking about me to other staff members, which upsets me.

What should I do? HR are fully aware and have done nothing - this is a big organisation.

Thanks in advance.

A shameful bump!!

Anyone???

Thanks Mrs Magnolia, I appreciate the response.

My GP is very supportive, as was OH. Unfortunately my manager has ignored their suggestions...

What a load of w... your managers sound. Ignored OH advice for which they pay .Not very good but it does happen.

You need to make yourself appear the reasonable one here (which I think you are BTW) - so I would contact them with a series of dates you'd be prepared to meet and discuss your grievance. I work in HR and I'd always expect someone to make every effort to attend, and in your case I would definitely support progressing the grievance during sickness absence if it would help a quicker return and resolution.

Thanks again for responses. I have copy letters of all the times I have already attempted to resolve the issues, arrange meetings, avoid making matters formal etc.

They are livid that I had the nerve to use the company grievance procedures and want to discuss why I did this. I thought the procedures were there to be utilised if informal discussions/complaints etc were not resolved. They keep switching my manager so now I have a new manager again knowing all of my business when his job role is nothing to do with mine.

Is it fair to write to me stating that I am unreasonable as other staff members do not resort to getting their union involved to resolve issues? How long do they think is fair for me to wait for an outcome?

I am seriously thinking of resigning as I cannot face going back, especially when they are slagging me off to the other staff.

No it's not right for them to do that and my first thought was this bullying and to raise a grievance!

Take a look at directgov/speak to Acas about guidelines for how long it should take.

They can't blackmail you into returning to work. Do you have a copy of their grievance policy? If not get one it will say when he should have responded. I would say you can either write to them quoting their policy and how long you have been waiting and that you expect a response in x days or you can just raise a further grievance re no outcome from the first two. That would basically be about your manager so should be addressed to his manager.

Hello LovesBloomin, I do have a copy of the policy, a meeting should be held within a week and then an outcome within a further two weeks, so they are way off target. I did quote their policy on a couple of emails and then raised a further grievance - indeed I have copied in the managers manager. I also copied in the higher manager. This is when I have had the horrible letter about my audacity to use the grievance procedures!