[access-uk] Re: O.T Constructive Discrimination
- From: "Harry Lyddall" <harry.lyddall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:38:57 +0100
best wishes to you too, andy. that is really great news.
congratulations.
couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
all the best.
harry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Logue" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:20 PM
Subject: [access-uk] O.T Constructive Discrimination
> Hi all.
>
> Some list members may recall, around 20 months ago, I wrote to this list
on
> several issues relating to my treatment from Argyll and Bute Council,
after
> I had secured a Social Workers post with them. One of the messages
> concerned a Risk Assessment on me which concluded that as a blind worker,
I
> should not be located on any floor other than the ground. Well, as I
said,
> there were a good few similar issues between the time when I got the job,
> January 04 and when I was sacked on May 6, without commencing in my post.
> Well, I took the authority to the Employment Tribunal in Glasgow and the
> Disability Rights Commission took over the funding after a few months.
This
> afternoon I received a letter from my lawyer advising that my case against
> the authority was successful. I will have to wait a little while longer
> before I'm told how much compensation I will receive, but it's just
> fantastic to have won my case. With a bit of luck, it will be all over
the
> papers up hear so perhaps Local Authorities will finally accept that
> discrimination of disabled people will simply not be tolerated any
longer.
>
> Best wishes.
> Andy
>
>
>
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