It’s not unusual for professionals to feel a manageable amount of pressure or stress at work from time to time, especially if your job carries a lot of responsibility.
Your employer has a duty to monitor and consider the impact of work-related stress, particularly if they’ve already been put on notice that work stress has been harming your health. If they fail to take steps to act, and it impacts your mental or physical health significantly as a result, you could make a stress at work claim for compensation.
Our specialist workplace illness solicitors can help professionals to make a claim for work related stress if your employer hasn’t taken steps to reduce your stress after they’ve been told your health was suffering as a result. This needs to be supported by your documented information through emails you may have sent, your copies of your one-to-ones, or even your personal journal entries.
We can represent people in professional roles, such as:
- Doctors, nurses, and NHS managers
- Solicitors and other legal professionals
- Pilots and aviation industry management
- Accountants and financiers
- Executives, directors, senior and middle management
- Marketers
- Recruitment
- IT Professionals.
This isn’t an exhaustive list. If you hold a professional role in a different sector, we may still be able to help you. Contact us today to discuss your situation and we’ll advise you on whether we can represent you.
We offer a tailored personal injury claim service for professionals and executives who have experienced work-related stress, whether due to overwork, lack of support, bullying, or unfair treatment. We specialise in cases where employers have neglected their duty to protect their employees in times of excessive stress.
Work-related stress is a major cause of work-related absence in the UK. The Health and Safety Executive reported 338,000 new cases of work-related stress, anxiety, and depression in 2023.
In some professions, stress at work is particularly problematic such as the medical profession and the law. The NHS Staff survey 2023 with 42% of all staff saying they felt unwell because of work-related stress. Doctors in particular experience high levels of stress with 62% reporting suffering with depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, and emotional distress, and being three-to-four times more likely to die by suicide than the general population.
Legal professionals also experience high levels of stress. A 2019 survey of the profession reported that almost 66% of solicitors were experiencing high levels of stress and 76% felt that stress and mental wellbeing was a major issue in the legal profession.
Why choose Irwin Mitchell to handle your stress at work claim?
We’ve one of the UK's largest personal injury teams. Our specialist solicitors have decades of experience in successfully representing professionals in stress related personal injury claims. We’ve worked on a huge range of different cases, giving us a unique set of expertise in getting our clients the outcome they want.
We believe passionately that workers have the right to expect to be kept safe from harm at work. If your employer hasn't protected you from risks in the workplace, we'll fight for the compensation you deserve.
Helping you gain access to rehabilitation treatments that support you in dealing with your illness is also an essential part of our service. Our dedication to making sure our clients get the medical support has seen us win the Claimant Solicitor of the Year award at the Post Magazine's Rehabilitation First Awards seven times.
We’ve connections with independent experts such as consultant psychiatrists and psychologists who can give evidence support your work-related stress claim.
Aside from our legal expertise, we also offer an in-house counselling service to support you through this stressful time.
Our personal injury solicitors are highly praised by legal guide, The Legal 500, which ranks us in the top-tier for personal injury claims. They state: “Irwin Mitchell remain the market leader for personal injury. Boasting a big team of top lawyers across the entire country they are unparalleled in the scope of work they do. Top lawyers with expertise in every niche PI area means that there is no case they can’t handle.”
Chambers and Partners, another leading legal guide, also holds our personal injury team in high regard. They feature a client testimonial who stated: “I find the team to be both methodical and innovative in its approach, demonstrating a high level of knowledge of both clinical and legal issues and being comfortable expressing these concepts in lay language.”
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