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Hi, my name is kimmyg51! I'm finding it extremely hard to work
hi ive recently being diagnosed with oestoarthritis severe in right hip i work in a childrens nursery and im finding extremely hard to work is there anything anyone can suggest
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Looking for New Employment
Hello I haven't used this site in a while but thought someone may be able to advise me. In February 2021 I had to take Voluntary Redundancy from my Job which I had been in for 23 years and 9 months. I now find myself out of work and although I want to take a bit of a break I am well aware that I don't have a Salary coming…
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Hi! Who has worked from home during sheilding and now has to return to the office?
Hi everyone I'm just wondering who has worked from home during sheilding and now has to return to the office even though you can work fully from home. My GP gave me a note only for four weeks home working as suggested but I'm stuck and they are saying I've got to go into the office as I've been home long enough, they've…
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Disability discrimination tribunal
Hi, I’m due to fill out my ET1 in the next few days, can I just confirm at this stage it’s just filling the form. I don’t need to include all the evidence I have? has anyone used a solicitor to help them fill out the form? I know it’s straight forward just don’t want to get this wrong. Also can I make a claim for hurt…
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Should staff work on Easter Friday if they don't have to
Should staff work on Easter Friday if they dont have too.
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Access to work. My travel grant claim takes 15 days to process. Has anyone else had this problem?
Good afternoon, i have just registered and this is my first post. I have recently been awarded a grant for travel to and from my work, i have just made my first claim and the amount of time it took was ridiculous, they told me it was 10 days to process, and then 5 days for the money to go in my bank. This has put extra…
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Treated as less intelligent at work. Is there anything I can do?
Hi, I've always been open about my Dyspraxia and never let it hold me back, including practicing constantly throughout my life so that I can write reports and other complex writing pieces as if I was neurotypical. Unfortunately I moved to a new department at my organisation in February 2019, getting a new manager a few…
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Tickbox Interview
I have had a good career with a global employer. My disability was not an impediment to progress. But, I decided to step back from the stresses of it a year ago. I recently applied for a lecturing post at a local college as have some experience of lecturing at a number of universities and it claimed it welcomed…
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Hi, my name is applecrumble! Can I ask my employer to finish me on ill health grounds?
I have been off work for the last 7 months due to ill health with a long term condition that I will not recover from. My ssp has ended and i am on half occupational sick pay due to end in a couple of months. However I can’t see me being able to go back to work and I don’t want my employer waiting any longer to see if I’m…
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Disability discrimination in the work place and filling in an ET1 Form correctly
Hi everyone, hope someone can help. I was dismissed from my job back in January. I'm a wheelchair user with cerebral Palsy. I was supposidly dismissed for poor performance but in the absence of regular performance review, I think it was more the fact that the employer failed to ensure evacuation safety support. I'm looking…
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Hello
Hello everyone, I am new to scope and the forums so thought I’d introduce myself. I have been disabled for almost 4 years after contracting sepsis. I was in ICU for many weeks and they discovered that the septic shock had damaged my heart valve and I had to have open heart surgery and now have a mechanical valve. I also…
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Advice/Experiences of Intensive Personal Employment Support to Work & Health Programme
Ello! I hope you're all tickety boo or as tickety boo as you can be. I'm sparkly new to the forum and I was after some advice. I've been disabled for quite a while and had an adapted salon at home. After each lockdown, going back to work really took its toll and made it plainly obvious that it was killing me (bit dramatic…
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Discrimination at work
I have sent my ET1 off and awaiting my ET3 copy.... My employer have now after 6months decided they will make an adjustment for my disability (now they have the ET1) , which is a new role new targets, new hours... but won’t tell me what it is till I say if I will accept it? Why would this be? It’s a huge company who are…
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I'm losing my job in May
I thought they might keep me on, but no. I don't really mind, it was getting boring anyway. I wanted to ask, do any of you actually like your jobs? Job specifications these days are so annoying. They make out like you have to be estatic to go to work. You have to be passionate about certain things, and I'm not. The only…
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Hi, I'm Esmeralda77! I need advice about leaving work.
Hi Everyone. I have joined the community as I feel I need support in my situation at present and also information. I do hope you will help. I am 62 years old, working from home part-time. I have a chronic mental health condition OCD which I have had since my teens and it has been a real disability in many ways for most of…
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Shielding, is this discrimination?
Hi I am currently shielding but working from home part time. I’ve been with the company for over 5 years. Some extra hours have become available and I’d asked to go full time (something that they’ve been asking me to do for awhile - I was always planning to do this once my child reached high school age & my employer was…
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Stressing about returning to work
So I was furloughed beginning of the year as I work in retail. It was pretty good timing as my partner had been diagnosed with MS in November and had had several falls recently. I’ve spent the past few months sorting things like esa assessment, pip assessment, insurance claim, occupational therapist visits and various…
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Medical Jewellery
Hi All, this probably isn’t the right thread to ask this question so apologies, as some of you may know I work in an NHS trust. I’ve worked there for a number of years as a receptionist and now have been redeployed medically to my new department. I wear my MedicAlert Jewellery to symbolise I have a medical condition. Today…
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Update
Hi everyone, I hope you are all well, and cooping with the lockdown. I already contact support to work and one of advisers is helping me with the CV and cover letter. On the last lockdown I took 3 courses online, step in social care, caring for Vulnerable children’s and helping children’s on the run. I’m going to apply to…
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Tips you may find helpful (what I went threw being bullied in the work place for being disabled )
Hi there I just want to clarify I’m not expert in law or any thing like I’m not really a expert in any thing ha but I have seen a few posts and comments regarding having A disability and regarding work . And wanted to share this with you all . Some of you may know I suffer with mental illness I currently am not able to…
