Workers’ Compensation in Stress-Related Claims: Some Thoughts for Employers in the UK

Jill Earnshaw and Cary L. Cooper

Chapter 31 in From Stress to Wellbeing Volume 2, 2013, pp 150-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The UK courts are no strangers to claims by employees who have been injured at work and who are seeking compensation for their injuries. Workers regularly become trapped by machinery, slip on factory floors, strain their backs whilst lifting equipment or develop industrial diseases such as pneumoconiosis.

Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Mental Stress; Physical Injury; Cumulative Trauma; Compensation Board (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137309341_9

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