Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Writing in NLJ this week, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist, highlights Foxton-Duffy v Jockey Club Racecourses Ltd, where the court found repeated warnings about excessive workload made psychiatric injury reasonably foreseeable. Confidential counselling and healthcare provision were 'no panacea', the judge held, because they did not discharge the employer's duty to prevent harm.
Gold also rounds up other procedural developments, including tougher controls on unregulated 'psychologists' giving evidence in family proceedings, new guidance intended to curb a surge in interim relief applications in employment tribunals, and changes exposing judgment creditors' identities on the Register of Judgments.
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