am I being discriminated against at work?

rogerblack

stevemLS wrote: »

Cancer is one of the few conditions that is automatically a disability (good news on your being in remission)

There is no such thing as 'automatically a disability'.
There is no one list as to what a disability is in law.
For example - under the equalities act, cancer that does not affect your life significantly probably won't qualify, nor will a short course of treatment leading to a cure.
Under PIP, unless it leads to a disability lasting 12 months (or you are terminally ill), it will not count.
Under ESA, you would not qualify specially, if you only have surgery.
Tax credits, and other benefits vary again.

stevemLS

It is paragraph 6, Schedule 1 of the 2010 Act.

6(1)Cancer, HIV infection and multiple sclerosis are each a disability.

(2)HIV infection is infection by a virus capable of causing the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

So those 3 conditions, as well as blindness under Regulations made under the Act, are automatically disabilities.

Everything else is based on effect and duration.

rogerblack

stevemLS wrote: »

It is paragraph 6, Schedule 1 of the 2010 Act.

I missed that 'schedule 1 applies' at the bottom of chapter 1(6).

Thanks - though I note the rest of the comment about different regulations still applies.
For the purposes of the equalities act, cancer is such a disability.

I have now completed looking at the SIs for my case, and found that they haven't defined CFS away as a disability.

Though wanting to habitually set fire to government ministers is apparently not a disability.
Which on balance I quite agree with.