�50,000 award for teacher over stress at work - The Herald

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�50,000 award for teacher over stress at work

ANDREW DENHOLM, Education CorrespondentDecember 29 2005

It pays to tackle workplace stress before it costs your organisation hard earned cash.






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A TEACHER has won �50,000 compensation after suffering work-related stress in a landmark case which unions believe could trigger hundreds of similar claims.
The pay-out, believed to be the largest of its kind in Scotland, came after a protracted battle between teaching unions and a local authority over the teacher's workload.
Although no details were released, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said the council which employed the teacher was 'consistently unsympathetic' to the pressures o"

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