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Advice needed: furniture requires specialist set up which I can't do, but they won't refund it
Hi friends, I've received a desk from my new workplace. It's really heavy duty, and there are not enough holes for the table legs to screw into.Engaging with the furniture hire company, they have been really insensitive saying things like: "When attaching the legs to the desk, the two screws which line up with holes are…
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Childcare & Disability Declaration
Hello - appreciate some employment advice if possible: Son has nocturnal epilepsy - controlled with meds. Has never had any issues in day/while awake and has not missed any school. Has just completed A levels and hoping to either go to Uni in Sept or take a gap year. A summer job helping in a summer childcare setting has…
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Sorry situation with regards to work
Hello, You may have seen some of my previous posts on here about work and returning to work. My employer has kept my job open still after 18 months. Anyway, they've given so many weeks to decide if I'm to return and return to night shift working. I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice? I currently struggle with…
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I accepted a role at the end of May and I still have no start date
I accepted a role at a private hospital near me around 24th May 2022. Almost every week I give them a call for the past month and I have not received a response to any messages left. I have signed a contract with them. It is a zero hour contract. Can they turn around and say I have no job anymore? I simply want a start…
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The Employment Problem
So I have multiple disabilities Neurofibromatosis type 1 - this causes issues with my bones, muscles, nerves and causes tumours (are mostly benign but some can be cancerous, but some can grow in areas that then causes pain and mobility issues) I have cognitive issues due to NF1, learning difficulties and dsylexia I also…
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Hi, my name is anniebb! Having issues at work with hr
Hi everyone my name is ann i am 56
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Ableism Advice
Hello everyone. This is my first post and I'm here because I am fed up with ableism in the workplace. I'm fuming right now after another example where the organisation just can't to see that their actions and the words they use are ableism. I really hope that this is lack of education so I want to do something about it.…
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DDA Greivance - Denied A/L specifically due to "employee's autism, and requiring routine"
Hello to all I've just signed up and joined as what appears to be a fairly awful event has just occurred to my son. He works in a local government leisure centre, which is run by a private company on behalf of the local council. Due to Covid, he has accumulated a great deal of A/L, which he has been informed he is required…
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Thinking about doing a course to help me to get a Health Care Assistant job at my local hospital
Hi everyone, I'm thinking about doing a course to help me to get a Health Care Assistant job at my local hospital, but I'm not sure where to start. I have a female friend who has 5 sons (her youngest is 1 now I think) and her eldest son is amazing as he helps his mum a lot when he can. Her middle son is in like a sort of…
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Worried that I may have a new work coach as my current one was waiting for her contract to be renewe
I currently have a lovely female work coach at my local job center as she listens to me and answers any questions that either myself or my fiance have (my fiance comes with me for support as I can get really flustered and sometimes forget to asks questions I've wanted to ask if I'm on my own). But at one of my previous 3…
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Disability Discrimination at work?
Hi, I am new to this site. I wonder if anyone can help me please.........I have Sjogren's Syndrome ( a "hidden disability") with many debilitating manifestations (which I call my 'living hell') which result in a miserable living existence. An auto immune condition which effects all aspects of my life. Following an OH…
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An Interview under the Disability Symbol Scheme
Hello. I'm currently in the process of applying for an IT Support Assistant role at my local college, which I have just finished, on a 7 week contract, so just before I start University. One question in the application form caught my eye though: 'Are you seeking an interview under the disability symbol scheme?' What does…
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My SSP stopped, employer didn't tell me
I'm looking for help and advice. I have been on sick leave from work since 24th February this year, 2022. I received SSP and company sick pay in my April and May monthy wage payments. I didn't get anything for March for the sick leave, as the way cut off days work, the SSP and CSP wouldn't be applied to that month's…
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Hidden disability; Depression & Anxiety Employment tribunal ?
I believe my employer (unnamed government department) has discriminated against me. I have depression and anxiety, a condition that I declared on my application prior to joining. The role I am in now is not the role that I currently applied for, and was subsequently moved into the contact centre, a move that we were told…
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At home jobs
Does anyone know at home jobs because I have tried finding a job and no one will take me someone please find me a at home job needing job and I don’t like being in town in Carmarthen needing a at home job
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Hi, my name is jadeywadey_17! and my employer wants me to resign on grounds of ill health
Hey everyone I’m after abit of help it information really I’ve been with my employer for nearly 10 years and have been registered disabled for 8 years but I’ve been on long term sick for the last 14 months and I’m still waiting on an operation I have several chronic illnesses and work 25hours a week when able but my health…
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Help
Please just help me finding a at home job and quick
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Do you prefer at home or face to face work
Needing help as I hate speaking to others and just needing advise
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Access in and out of work
Please can anyone give advice on access in and out of a workplace? I believe I am asking for a reasonable adjustment by asking to use the fire exit door as it is nearest entrance to my office. I have problems with mobility and sensory overload, the door in question is used to enter when unoccupied.
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Hi, my name is Funnygirl123! I am having to choose between resigning and going to a panel
I am having to choose between resigning and going to a panel and being dismissed at work. I am a care worker but have arthritis in my knee. Work has tried to redeploy me but this hasn't been successful. Now I have to choose what to do. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
