Many people believe that employers should be responsible for their employees’ mental health. What is your view of this situation, and how do you suggest we solve this problem.

In my point of view, I think that employers should not be responsible for their employee’s mental health. Many people think that work pressure caused mental health for employees. However, we can see from pass experience that mental health problems are not necessarily caused by work pressure.

Mental health can be caused by different kinds of pressures and problems, for example, family problems, economical problems, relationship problems and last but not least work stress. Hence we can see from this that work stress is not the only pressure that may cause mental health problems. For example, depression can be caused by family problems as well as relationship problems, but seldom does working stress cause it. Mental health problems can be caused by other factors in employees’ everyday life, therefore employers should not be responsible for employees’ mental health. If employers are to be responsible for their employees’ mental health than it will increase the company’s financial burden and may decrease employees’ salaries due to the company being responsible for their mental health. Although employers being responsible for employees’ mental health may sound very great to employees, but if you stand in the view of employers, it is not anything to be happy at all.

However, mental health of employees is still a problem to the whole society, I will give a few suggestion below to help solve the problem. My first suggestion is that the government open up a mental health clinic with business companies. Companies may choose to join this plan as they wish, but they will have to pay half of the costs of the clinic, and the government will pay the other half. After they joined the clinic, then their employees may freely use the services in the clinic, which includes mental health help from mental health specialists to help cue employees mental health problems. My second suggestion is to make a law on maximum working hours for employees. For example, a maximum working hour 12 hours a day, if employees exceed that working hours, then employers have to compensate for the time the employees worked on, and also they have to be responsible for any mental health the employees have. If both of my suggestions are put into action, I think that the problem of whether employers should be responsible for their employees’ mental health.

As a conclusion, in my opinion, I think that employers should not be responsible for their employees’ mental health, as working stress may not be the sole cause of mental health problems. Also two suggestions I made is to first found a clinic funded by both the government and business companies to help deal with mental health problems, second to create a law to restrict the employees’ working time. I think these two suggestions can well solve the problem.

By Greyrocks