Discriminated for my dyslexia......

elvis1

Rachel, if you other half has been assessed with Dyslexia he is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act. It sounds to me like they are making every excuse they can to get rid of him.

As for him finishing early to pick up his child, if they had agreed this is ok they now need to give a reason why this has been changed. They are not allowed to do this to working mums, so they are not allowed to do this to working dads either. I think emailing the Dyslexia Association or even seeking legal advice. Legal advice is free for the first meeting then it depends if they take up your case. Is it possible for you to go to the meetings with him and ask for them to be recorded and you even take notes also.

http://www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/

Never go into meetings alone.

Good luck

SarEl

elvis1 wrote: »

Rachel, if you other half has been assessed with Dyslexia he is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act. It sounds to me like they are making every excuse they can to get rid of him.

As for him finishing early to pick up his child, if they had agreed this is ok they now need to give a reason why this has been changed. They are not allowed to do this to working mums, so they are not allowed to do this to working dads either. I think emailing the Dyslexia Association or even seeking legal advice. Legal advice is free for the first meeting then it depends if they take up your case. Is it possible for you to go to the meetings with him and ask for them to be recorded and you even take notes also.

http://www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/

Never go into meetings alone.

Good luck

I am sorry, but there are a lot of assumptions here which cannot be sustained. Dyslexia is indeed covered by the DDA - but at present there is not sufficient information to say that any discrimination has taken place. Simply being covered by the DDA does not provide a defence against disciplinary proceedings, and there is no information as to what the disciplinary is about, why it has been brought, nor anything else.

Nor is there any evidence to say whether or not there was an agreement for flexible working in place. There is no automatic right to finish early to go and pick up your child - for women or men.

And an employer is only required to permit accompaniment by a trades union representative accredited for the purpose, or by a work colleague - there is no right to be permitted any other person. An employer may permit it but few would. If there is a need for a reasonable adjustment to enable an employee with dyslexia to properly represent themselves, then they must present that case to the employer who should make such adjustments as are reasonable.

There is insufficient evidence in the OP to assume that the disciplinary has anything whatsoever to do with the dyslexia, and assumptions that it has are not helpful. Facts are the only things that have merit, and the OP has provided few facts.

viktory

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I gave up halfway.

Yeah, so did I. Now we wait to be told we are hideously awful, nasty people and don't we realise that someone has come on here for help and advice not criticism about their grammar and punctuation and what does it matter anyway??

RachelH198

Hello,

I'm not about to criticise anyone for mentioning the fact I didn't lay out the information in an easy to read way!

Thankyou for all your feedback.


I am not questioning the fact that he should be disciplined because he has a disibility, obviously this doesn't come into it. It is the fact he was told in a meeting that "his dyslexia is a problem for the company" This was then ommited from the notes of the meeting.



I understand adjustments dont necessatily have to be made to a persons job, however they have known he has difficulties with reading and writing since his initial interview, he was told it was not a problem as the previous person to have done his job was as well



His Occupational Health advisor wrote to his company saying that he would have "good and bad days" and a gradual return to work would help him.



In his contract it states he does have flexible working hours, and adjustments are permitted for child care etc.



I appreciate maybe he could have spoken to somebody about the letters coming through, but he is incredibly self conscious about his disability, and as a result of suffering with severe depression didnt feel like talking to anyone, he still does not socialise as before.

Savvy_Sue

thanks for the short paragraphs!

Do you want to update us on what actually happened last Friday? Have you established whether it was an investigative meeting, or an actual disciplinary?

I can't imagine how hard it must be to struggle with reading and writing, and I know people go to great lengths to hide it. However there ARE adult literacy classes, which are not at all like school, so if he has any time on his hands it might be worth investigating those. Hopefully they would be clued up on the various strategies and approaches which may help dyslexics.

SarEl

RachelH198 wrote: »

Hello,

I'm not about to criticise anyone for mentioning the fact I didn't lay out the information in an easy to read way!

Thankyou for all your feedback.


I am not questioning the fact that he should be disciplined because he has a disibility, obviously this doesn't come into it. It is the fact he was told in a meeting that "his dyslexia is a problem for the company" This was then ommited from the notes of the meeting.



I understand adjustments dont necessatily have to be made to a persons job, however they have known he has difficulties with reading and writing since his initial interview, he was told it was not a problem as the previous person to have done his job was as well



His Occupational Health advisor wrote to his company saying that he would have "good and bad days" and a gradual return to work would help him.



In his contract it states he does have flexible working hours, and adjustments are permitted for child care etc.



I appreciate maybe he could have spoken to somebody about the letters coming through, but he is incredibly self conscious about his disability, and as a result of suffering with severe depression didnt feel like talking to anyone, he still does not socialise as before.

Or even - perhaps you could tell us what is going on? There is still absolutely no information about what the disciplinary is about, or what occupational health have to do with any of this. It is just adding more confusion.

Flexible working rules generally go alongside contractual conditions. These permit an employer to specify what hours and conditions apply to flexible working and, often, the employers ability to vary or remove the right to flexible working. They may also specify a process whereby you have to have permission to actually work such hours - in other words, the employer will consdier requests for flexible working. So a mention in the written terms will not tell the whole story.

It is still incerdibly difficult to tell you anything useful though, because we don't have a clue what is going on - you haven't told us.