I went absent from work around 2 weeks before lockdown with work related stress. For the first 2 months my employer paid me however this month my pay has been massively cut..
I have in the last 2 weeks returned to working from home as has most of the admin team and all the senior managers . As I was off with work related stress after 3 weeks I went back to my GP with the intention of getting a fit note to return to work however following tests done GP said it wouldn't be advisable at the moment for me to be in work, remembering this was less than a week after lockdown rules as a test had come back saying I had a fairly rare Auto-immune condition and was I to contract Covid it could have serious consequences.
I can as I have proved now been able to do over 80% of my role remotely I asked my GP about working remotely which he agreed he had no issue with if I felt the stress and anxiety attacks were better. I told work this and was ignored for nearly a week then when they did respond to a different email they made arrangements for a welfare call, so now absent 4 weeks before they wanted to speak to me and that welfare call took over 30 minutes and I was informed that in my absence they had sent a colleague to be trained to do my role, I should state that I found they only did this after I offered to work remotely.
Three weeks after being rejected for working remotely had a call from a higher manager who kept repeating "Your Job is Your Job" when I protested that I had been offering for 3 weeks to work remotely the blame this had not happened was placed on myself saying I did not have a doctors note to this effect but if I got one they would let me resume. Which I go for them the next day
I pointed to the fact that had the other manager said this was their issue I would have got a note to this effect but was not asked for and the offer was totally ignored. I should point out that there has never been a good working relationship between myself and my direct line manager who made the first "Welfare call"*
Given they have no chosen to stop my pay and given all my attempts to improve working relationships and get back to work do I have a case here for constructive dismissal given I just don't feel I can ever trust them again and the lines of communication have completely broken down.
I have in the last 2 weeks returned to working from home as has most of the admin team and all the senior managers . As I was off with work related stress after 3 weeks I went back to my GP with the intention of getting a fit note to return to work however following tests done GP said it wouldn't be advisable at the moment for me to be in work, remembering this was less than a week after lockdown rules as a test had come back saying I had a fairly rare Auto-immune condition and was I to contract Covid it could have serious consequences.
I can as I have proved now been able to do over 80% of my role remotely I asked my GP about working remotely which he agreed he had no issue with if I felt the stress and anxiety attacks were better. I told work this and was ignored for nearly a week then when they did respond to a different email they made arrangements for a welfare call, so now absent 4 weeks before they wanted to speak to me and that welfare call took over 30 minutes and I was informed that in my absence they had sent a colleague to be trained to do my role, I should state that I found they only did this after I offered to work remotely.
Three weeks after being rejected for working remotely had a call from a higher manager who kept repeating "Your Job is Your Job" when I protested that I had been offering for 3 weeks to work remotely the blame this had not happened was placed on myself saying I did not have a doctors note to this effect but if I got one they would let me resume. Which I go for them the next day
I pointed to the fact that had the other manager said this was their issue I would have got a note to this effect but was not asked for and the offer was totally ignored. I should point out that there has never been a good working relationship between myself and my direct line manager who made the first "Welfare call"*
Given they have no chosen to stop my pay and given all my attempts to improve working relationships and get back to work do I have a case here for constructive dismissal given I just don't feel I can ever trust them again and the lines of communication have completely broken down.
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