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Have you had issues with your employer or workplace during the pandemic?
Are you
worried about returning to a workplace because of a health condition /
disability? Have you been
denied furlough by your employer, but are worried about returning to work?
Could you afford to live on Statutory Sick Pay? (SSP) Have you been
working from home, on furlough or SSP, and face going back to work before…
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Hi, I'm Padraig! Looking for flexible work due to chronic illness.
Hi, I really want to work but have several chronic illnesses that remind and flare up so I can’t guarantee to be say somewhere really every Tuesday at 9am. Looking for flexible ideas. Quie educated, qualified and experienced at 53 but willing to do anything within my reach. Charity work or helping others would be great.…
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Good job news
Hi everyone, I already found a job I’m so excited and happy ? I’m waiting for the DBS soon I received they tell me wen can I start. I’m going to work as a care worker, I never thought that I would achieve a good and a secure job. My only concern is I’m on furlough until May the 17 and I don’t know wen the DBS arrives I…
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Employment Tribunal Preliminary Hearing
I wonder if someone can
help! I'm currently in the Employment Tribunal process and have soon date
for Preliminary Hearing. I have completed the PH Agenda form with help
from the respondent I kid you not. This has now being sent. My worry is that the respondent's
solicitor is asking for a list of discriminatory matters,…
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Hi, my name is Whatsthis
Hello everyone, I hope I can get some advice here because I'm lost
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Hi, Why do employers try to skip away from employing the disabled?
Why do employers try to skip away from employing the disabled. Do we have two heads.
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Autism Acceptance Month Redundancy
Hi, Not mentioning their name: I have been employed by a company for 15 years in total yet I have managed to be made redundant twice now by the same Organisation in less than 3 years, Lucky me! Long story the first redundancy was after 12 and a half years when the Respite Hospice I worked in closed due to lack of funding…
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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…
