Sacked Whilst On Long Term Sick

lilmissking88

Hi guys,

I wonder if you can offer me some advice even though this happened a while ago. I doubt there is anything i can do about it now but hey ho.
Bit of background - i had worked for the company on a permanent contract for 18 months before this.

Last June (2009), i was diagnosed with severe clinical depression following the death of a family member, and i was struggling to cope. After visiting the doctor and being diagnosed, and prescribed strong antidepressants and counselling or 'talking therapy' every week, i was advised by the call centre manager to take a few days off to allow myself to get used to the side effects of my tablets - they made me very dizzy, clumsy and disorientated - so i took a week off.
During that week, the tablets took quite a bad effect and after numerous visits to the doctor, i was signed off on long term sick, as my illness was physically and mentally stopping me from doing my job.
In August (2009) after being off for a month, i had my team leader out for a home visit to see how i was doing. when she came i showed her all the paperwork and booklets etc i had been given from my therapist as well as the dates i had been and attended - twice a week - and she seemed satisfied that i was taking the relevant steps to get back into work as soon as i could. I kept in touch with her for the next month until she advised me that as i had been off for 2 months i would now need to deal with the new call centre manager. I also had to discuss my issues with the occupational health service.
In September 2009, i recieved a letter from the new call centre manager advising me that i needed to attend a meeting in the office to discuss coming back to work, i attended and he asked when i would be coming back to work, and i told him, it would be another 6 weeks at least as i was still in a dark place and recently changed my tablets. He wrote everything down and told me he would be in touch.
2 weeks after this, i took a bad turn and ended up in a local mental health unit after trying to commit suicide, so my doctor again changed my tablets and upped my therapy which seemed to be helping.
I then recieved another letter from work, telling me i needed to attend another meeting, again i went, and i was asked when i would return and i gave him a date of the 20th october 2009 as i felt this would give me sufficent time to prepare. A week after this, i recieved yet another letter, this time telling me that my contract had been terminated due to ill health. This was a few days before i was due to return to work.

Was this right of him to do? Any advice appreciated?