Dear Ms Gray

Request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Thank you for your email received on 4 December 2008 requesting that the following information be provided to you:

“I would like to know how many employees of the city council have been absent from work due to either stress, anxiety, depression or any combination of those ailments between 1st August 2004 and 31^st October 2008.

Please also confirm how many complaints of bullying have been made

by employees of the council against managers or colleagues during

the same period.

Please confirm how many employees have claimed constructive

dismissal within the same period for bullying/harassment.

Please confirm how many claims have been filed against the city council at the Employment Tribunal within the same period for bullying/harassment.”

The Council is treating your request as a request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

On inspecting our records, it would appear that Glasgow City Council does not hold some of the information which you have requested. Neither does anyone else hold it on our behalf. Accordingly we are unable to comply with your request in full.

It is not currently possible to establish the number of employees who have been absent from work due to stress, anxiety or depression during the period 1^st August 2004 to 31^st October 2008.

A new centralised database is being rolled out in 2009. When this happens the Council will be able to generate this information, but at present each service would be required to collate this information from their own systems. In some cases information is contained in largely manual records and would therefore take a significant amount of time which would be cost and time prohibitive to produce the data.

The information which you requested and which is not covered by any exemptions as described above is as follows:

Table 1 details the number of complaints of bullying made by employees of Glasgow City Council against managers or colleagues between1st August 2004 and 31^st October 2008.

Table 1

Table 2 details the number of constructive dismissal claims relating to bullying made by employees of Glasgow City Council against managers or colleagues between 1st August 2004 and 31^st October 2008.

Table 2

The figures contained in Table 2 above also detail the number of claims filed against Glasgow City Council at the Employment Tribunal between 1^st August 2004 and 31^st October 2008.

Please note that the information provided in response to your request is, unless otherwise indicated, copyright © Glasgow City Council 2009. It is supplied to you in terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Any further use by you of this information must comply with the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended and/or the Copyright and

Rights in Databases Regulations 1997. In particular, any commercial use or re-use of the information provided requires the prior written consent of the Council.

Requests for such consent should be addressed to:

Head of PR & Marketing

Glasgow City Council

City Chambers

George Square

Glasgow

G2 1DU

Some or all of the information may be subject to third party copyright, in which case the permission of the third party copyright holder may be required. No claim is made in respect of third party copyright.

If you are dissatisfied with the way Glasgow City Council has dealt with your request you are entitled to require the Council to review its decision. Please note that for a review to take place you must:

The Solicitor to the Council

Glasgow City Council

City Chambers

George Square

Glasgow G2 1DU

Email: [email address]

You will receive notice of the results of the review within 20 working days of receipt of your request. The notice will state the decision reached by the reviewing officer as well as details of how to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner if you are still dissatisfied with the Council's response. You must request an internal review by the Council before a complaint can be directed to the Scottish Information Commissioner.

If you have any further queries regarding this process, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Kathleen Reid

Corporate Compliance Officer

Glasgow - Proud Host City of the 2014 Commonwealth Games