LRD guides and handbook July 2017

Health and safety law 2017

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Chapter 11

Common law protection 



[ch 11: page 199]

Under the common law, employers may be (and have been held) liable for psychiatric or psychological damage caused by bullying or harassment at work. The discussion above on psychiatric injury caused by work-related stress (see pages 195-196) applies equally here.


There is more detailed information available in the Labour Research Department’s companion publication Law at Work
 (www.lrdpublications.org.uk/publications.php?pub=BK&iss=1873).


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