Hi,
Im actually writing this on behalf of my wife.
A bit of history:
wife has had labyrinthitis since 2004 but has self managed it during this time. Had not affected her job in any way and had never had any time off work.
Sept 2013 - condition got worse and was off work for 4 months but went back to work on the 5th month (Despite getting full pay for the 6 months on sickness) as the waiting list to see a specialist doctor was 6 months. Loves her job and hates being off work !
She has never been of work since.
June 2014:
She is now under a consultant with a new diagnosis of migraine disease and she is going through therapy and medication which has helped lots. The consultant also advised her not to do night shift work as this could aggravate the condition.
Reason for it being night shift is due to coming off one night onto another night and it messes with the body clock etc..
Consultant has advised her that the treatment and therapy could take over a year to work.
So with a letter from the consultant to the employers occupational health she has been taken off night shift.
She also has monthly meetings with occupational health and bosses with her union rep present to monitor progress..
In November 2014 she was asked by bosses to trial night shift work and she did although the day after she felt as though she was back at stage one and made bosses aware of this .
She was back to normal within a few days.
She has now had a meeting with her bosses and occupational health stating that she now has to undertake nightshift duties as per her employment contract, and stated that if she is unable to do so then she will be re-deployed. This was devastating to her as she feels as there is no support from her employer.
This has got her really down as she knows the night shift pattern will eventually put her back to the beginning.
Time will tell how its going to pan out health wise as shes on nights from Monday.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Sammy
Im actually writing this on behalf of my wife.
A bit of history:
wife has had labyrinthitis since 2004 but has self managed it during this time. Had not affected her job in any way and had never had any time off work.
Sept 2013 - condition got worse and was off work for 4 months but went back to work on the 5th month (Despite getting full pay for the 6 months on sickness) as the waiting list to see a specialist doctor was 6 months. Loves her job and hates being off work !
She has never been of work since.
June 2014:
She is now under a consultant with a new diagnosis of migraine disease and she is going through therapy and medication which has helped lots. The consultant also advised her not to do night shift work as this could aggravate the condition.
Reason for it being night shift is due to coming off one night onto another night and it messes with the body clock etc..
Consultant has advised her that the treatment and therapy could take over a year to work.
So with a letter from the consultant to the employers occupational health she has been taken off night shift.
She also has monthly meetings with occupational health and bosses with her union rep present to monitor progress..
In November 2014 she was asked by bosses to trial night shift work and she did although the day after she felt as though she was back at stage one and made bosses aware of this .
She was back to normal within a few days.
She has now had a meeting with her bosses and occupational health stating that she now has to undertake nightshift duties as per her employment contract, and stated that if she is unable to do so then she will be re-deployed. This was devastating to her as she feels as there is no support from her employer.
This has got her really down as she knows the night shift pattern will eventually put her back to the beginning.
Time will tell how its going to pan out health wise as shes on nights from Monday.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Sammy
illness at work
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire