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Workplace stress management
The Court of Appeal has upheld an award of £135,000 to Tracy Daw, a worker at silicon chip firm Intel, after the company appealed the original High Court ruling. Workplace pressure over a period of 13 years was alleged to have cause mental breakdown.
Intel had countered by saying that if Ms Daw had used their employee assistance programme the extent of the problem would have been identified far earlier.
The Court ruled that the demands her employer had made were totally unreasonable and there was a clear risk to health, and that providing a counselling service was not a means to discharge the duty of care to employees.
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