Binge Drinking in the UK and Employers - A Lawsuit Time-Bomb
Binge drinking is news now in the UK. What nobody seems to realize is that sooner or later, it will translate into a lawsuit against a firm that encourages ill health by alcohol.
Many firms give employees a so-called perk of client entertainment, where the employee is encouraged to drink alcohol.
Many firms encourage a Friday night get-together in the pub. Many others have a monthly get-together where much alcohol is consumed.
Perhaps you work in such a firm yourself.
Are you such an employee? Maybe you feel it is normal to binge-drink, after all, everybody at work does it. But maybe you can ask yourself a few questions and look at the bigger picture
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And if you are an employer who binge-drinks and encourages their staff to do the same, you have three choices. Ignore your wrong-doing and get sued, ignore your wrong-doing and hope you will not get sued, or get help for the whole company so you can all be healthy and in control.
Are you perhaps in Human Resources and are partial to a glass of wine or three yourself?
Whatever your position in the company, binge drinking is bad for you. This is now a proven fact.
Maybe your friends drink. Maybe this is your work ethic. Maybe you are a wine connoisseur. Maybe if you are not drinking in the pub, you will miss
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Maybe part of you wants to be in control of alcohol whereas the other part needs to carry on drinking more than you can handle.
Perhaps part of you wants a solution and part of you is unsure of the consequences.
Perhaps part of you feels worthy of good health and part of you feels unworthy of being the real you without alcohol.
For employees who feel their life is being compromised by work-related alcohol, find a good lawyer. Write to your MP. Publicize this travesty of employee rights. Take action. If enough people sue their employers over this, employers will have to stop this heinous practice. Making your staff
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With a little effort and commitment, your firm can do an alcohol control program. This can take two simple forms.
For employers and management, all employee coercion and encouragement to go drinking after work has to stop. No exceptions. Even at the Christmas party, no employee should be encouraged to drink. Anything short of this has the potential to land a company with a lawsuit bigger than any drinks bill.
For the whole company, professional help can be sought to help staff and management gain control of
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Personally, I think it will take a sizable settlement before employers care enough for change. I hope I will be proved wrong.
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