About 10 years ago one of our staff members sued the boss because he bought his children into work and she ended up with chicken pox.   When my boss received the letter from her lawyer, he passed it to the company lawyer and was told to settle straight away as he did not have a leg to stand on.  She ended up with a finacial settlement for stress and inconvieniance and the boss had to give her the time off without it coming off her leave or sick leave entitlements.   IMO children should not be in the work place, I am an office worker and I come to work to work not be a nanny for other peoples children or to be distracted by them.

Wow - hope her working day's were happy after that. I am sorry, but suing someone coz you got ill ? If I go to work with the flu, can someone sue me or the company coz they catch it and need time off ? As 'stressful' as I (can't really) see it being - is it all about money these days?? Sad