Been Refused Disabled Parking at Place of Work

sheeps68

Oh I feelfor you. Its a harrid situation. do you have a union that would take on some of the fight for you. my union are fighting similar for me. we have 3 blue badge users in building & 2 badge spaces. I'm told I'm not allowed to use those whatever as they are allocated to others. None of us are chair users though apparently the others need the extra space & apparently I dont. I'm currently off sick having had to walk further a week or so ago when unwell.

Good luck.

jazabelle

sheeps68 wrote: »

Oh I feelfor you. Its a harrid situation. do you have a union that would take on some of the fight for you. my union are fighting similar for me. we have 3 blue badge users in building & 2 badge spaces. I'm told I'm not allowed to use those whatever as they are allocated to others. None of us are chair users though apparently the others need the extra space & apparently I dont. I'm currently off sick having had to walk further a week or so ago when unwell.

Good luck.

Thanks very much. We don't have a union at work. I keep meaning to join one as a member, but was waiting until I sorted out whether I could afford to join or not.

Oh no, that's awful. Why do they need the extra space out of interest? I hope they manage to do something for you.

bestpud

jazabelle wrote: »

Well the blue badge means I can park on yellow lines and things, so I should be able to park close to most of the clients, yes.

I will have to speak to her about it, but she is going to write to the council again requesting a parking space is provided under the DDA, as the Equality and Human Rights Commission advised her too.

I meant when outside your workplace too.

I know you couldn't all day, as there is a time limit, I believe...?

But, if you were in and out of the office, could you get away with parking on road rather than in the public car park?

Then your problem would mainly be the days you are in the office all day?

jazabelle

Ah, I see, sorry for misunderstanding. There are no roads suitable for parking near the building. There is a roundabout, with a small road to get to the car park - but you couldn't park there.

I won't be starting the home visits for ages, and it's not even confirmed, so I will always be in the office for months.

robredz

Anihilator wrote: »

How naive

Ok firstly no council would turn down cash just to give their staff more parking, secondly its likely the council asked for a large amount or minimum commitment to space and this is why. Running car parks isnt cheap.

I dont for a second believe this is anything other than financial bargaining here.

The council *should* on grounds of common sense, and good PR be lenient here and look at providing a space, if it is a public building it will have to have disabled visitor bays anyway by law. I suggest the OP also contacts disability rights organisations and inform them of this particular council's intransigence, so that it can be addressed along with other disability related social policy issues. Your comment around dismissal on capability grounds which would only apply if the OP was unable to discharge her duties effectively, not the case here, are unhelpful, at the least, and possibly distressing to someone asking advice here. Perhaps all us "cripples" and mobility impaired people would be better staying home in the warm on ESA, in your world.

jazabelle

robredz wrote: »

The council *should* on grounds of common sense, and good PR be lenient here and look at providing a space, if it is a public building it will have to have disabled visitor bays anyway by law.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I mean, by law they aren't my employer so probably don't have to - but as a council, particularly one that lobbies for disabled rights, it would be nice if they would provide one.

As far as I know the building isn't a public one, in that members of public don't visit it. It's out of town, so it's just their employees and us. But as far as I'm aware they do have disabled bays, for staff use.

robredz wrote: »

I suggest the OP also contacts disability rights organisations and inform them of this particular council's intransigence, so that it can be addressed along with other disability related social policy issues.

As soon as my employer gets a response, I will be getting as many people involved as possible - unless they have agreed to allow use of a space, of course. That's a great suggestion, and I will let them know.

robredz wrote: »

Your comment around dismissal on capability grounds which would only apply if the OP was unable to discharge her duties effectively, not the case here, are unhelpful, at the least, and possibly distressing to someone asking advice here. Perhaps all us "cripples" and mobility impaired people would be better staying home in the warm on ESA, in your world.

Thank you, I found them very hurtful and distressing. Also the repeated insinuations I was lying from him didn't help either.

I'm sure he'd find a reason to complain if I quit and went on ESA as well.

Thanks for your support.

Errata

Looking at it from another POV. Most councils require their contractors to adhere to the same eqauality standards as the council. Which coud be argued covers providing disabled parking for those contractors employees who need it.

jazabelle

Errata wrote: »

Looking at it from another POV. Most councils require their contractors to adhere to the same eqauality standards as the council. Which coud be argued covers providing disabled parking for those contractors employees who need it.

Thank you, I will put that in the letter.

robredz

Errata wrote: »

Looking at it from another POV. Most councils require their contractors to adhere to the same eqauality standards as the council. Which coud be argued covers providing disabled parking for those contractors employees who need it.

As the employer apparently works in partnership with the council, there should be some legal way of grounding indirect discrimination for the council's intransigence, as if it was one of "their" staff they could be taken to the cleaners for disability discrimination, as it is the parking not capability that is the nub of the problem.

pookienoodle

what would happen if you parked in one of the available parking bays?
Are there notices up about clamping/fines?
If they do have a ticket system in place is it legally enforcable or just an "invoice"?
you may find there is nothing stopping you using the designated bays.