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Retirement from work due to being off sck....help please

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  • chops05
    chops05 Posts: 178 Forumite
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    xylophone wrote: »
    Retirement? Are they offering him a pension on medical grounds?

    no they are offering him nothing.....just his P45 lol
  • chops05
    chops05 Posts: 178 Forumite
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    No advice but as I have just one nipped nerve in my neck that is painful, I just wanted to send your OH my best wishes. It is agony! Never knew how painful they could be until I got one!!

    Thank you. It's nice to hear from someone that understands what pain he is suffering :T

    Now he is suffering even more stress due to work hassling him to get back to work or force him to leave
  • When did he start working there?
  • chops05
    chops05 Posts: 178 Forumite
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    McNeff - his employer keep using the term retiring him from work.
  • chops05
    chops05 Posts: 178 Forumite
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    When did he start working there?

    Back in July 2012
  • chops05
    chops05 Posts: 178 Forumite
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    pmlindyloo wrote: »
    Have just read your previous thread and see your OH is not entitled to contribution based ESA.

    IS there any way you can increase your hours to 24 a week? (or take on a second job?) You would lose your ESA but you might be entitled to working tax credits.

    It might be a hassle with tax credits and I suppose it depends on availability of extra work and for how long your OH is out of work. May be worth considering especially as claims for ESA are taking a long time and he could be in the assessment phase for months.


    I did used to work 24 hours a week and my OH was self employed and had an accicent and couldnt work for 9 months. I was told by tax credits that I wasn't entitled to WTC as I worked too many hours???!!!???
  • chops05 wrote: »
    Back in July 2012

    In that case I would agree with McKneff, he has no significant employment rights (unless he is classed as disabled) and it is likely he is being dismissed on capability grounds :(

    A small positive - he will be entitled to holiday pay for his period of absence.
  • rogerblack
    rogerblack Posts: 9,446 Forumite
    In that case I would agree with McKneff, he has no significant employment rights (unless he is classed as disabled)

    Under the equalities act - there is no need for him to be 'classed as disabled' - by any formal procedure.
    Under the Equality Act a person is considered disabled if “they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities”.

    This is a very wide definition of disability - and someone that basically can't use their hands would easily meet it.

    If he is willing to work, and his role could be done effectively by someone in his condition with 'reasonable adjustments' - then his employer has a duty to do those adjustments.

    For example, a 100 pound ramp would almost always be 'reasonable'.
    But a 100000 pound addition of a lift to a building would not normally be.
  • chops05
    chops05 Posts: 178 Forumite
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    He is a mechanical engineer and the medication he is on means he cannot operate machinery. His work have said that there is nothing that they can offer him that doesn't involve using machinery so its not looking very hopeful that they can let him come to work and carry out light duties.
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