Online Mental Health Forum & Support @ In My Head

Posted: **Fri Feb 20, 2026 1:01 pm**

As the title says - does the employer have the right to tell you that you are not fit for work, when you believe you indeed are?

Posted: **Sat Feb 21, 2026 9:18 pm**

Hello.......having been of work for a number of weeks due to anxiety and this has happened a number of times, work can not define when you should return to work. Instead what they should do is invoke occupational health so that they can conduct a risk assessment by understanding your challenges, the demands of the role and associated recommendations to try and get you back into work (if at all possible). I have had occasions where it is no - I can not work - and the employer has to go by that.....hope that helps

Posted: **Thu Mar 19, 2026 3:30 pm**

Pikachu wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 9:18 pm Hello.......having been of work for a number of weeks due to anxiety and this has happened a number of times, work can not define when you should return to work. Instead what they should dob is invoke occupational health so that they can conduct a risk assessment by understanding your challenges, the demands of the role and associated recommendations to try and get you back into work (if at all possible). I have had occasions where it is no - I can not work - and the employer has to go by that.....hope that helps

Have been through and got LCWRA myself - it makes the conversation more easier.

Online Mental Health Forum & Support @ In My Head

Does work have the authority to tell you that you are not fit to work?

Does work have the authority to tell you that you are not fit to work?

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