Dismissed when waiting for surgery

andygb

pupgrum wrote: »

Pulling the disability card won't work. He's been out of work for seven months, looks like it's going to be at least eight months and even then he might not be able to work. The employer is right to dismiss him.

You are either a troll or a really nasty piece of work.

pupgrum

andygb wrote: »

You are either a troll or a really nasty piece of work.

Are you claiming to be an employer who hires disabled employees who, while technically employees, don't actually work and you keep paying them? If you want to donate money that badly, then donate, and that's your tax reduced and also company PR going up. You gain nothing keeping an employee who doesn't work for more than six months. The only thing you get from that is a sense of self satisfaction from taking pity on someone else. That's for a charity, not an employer to do.

AylesburyDuck

andygb wrote: »

You are either a troll or a really nasty piece of work.

:think:

pupgrum wrote: »

Are you claiming to be an employer who hires disabled employees who, while technically employees, don't actually work and you keep paying them? If you want to donate money that badly, then donate, and that's your tax reduced and also company PR going up. You gain nothing keeping an employee who doesn't work for more than six months. The only thing you get from that is a sense of self satisfaction from taking pity on someone else. That's for a charity, not an employer to do.

:eek:
Well that clears that up. The latter it is.
Disgusting comment.

pupgrum

AylesburyDuck wrote: »

:think:



:eek:
Well that clears that up. The latter it is.
Disgusting comment.

So easily you label anyone saying something negative about disabled employees, yet your comment is hypocritically disgusting to employers who are unreasonably expected to fund disabled employees for life.

If someone has a disability, only took several weeks off from work and then came back asking for minor adjustments made at work then I'm all for that. 6+ months out of work with no real prospect of returning to work is disgusting to employers.

Undervalued

pupgrum wrote: »

So easily you label anyone saying something negative about disabled employees, yet your comment is hypocritically disgusting to employers who are unreasonably expected to fund disabled employees for life.

If someone has a disability, only took several weeks off from work and then came back asking for minor adjustments made at work then I'm all for that. 6+ months out of work with no real prospect of returning to work is disgusting to employers.

The point here is not about what you, I or anybody else thinks but whether or not the employer is complying with the law of the land.

Based on the information we have been given they are quite possibly not. Ironically, had they done so the could almost certainly have taken proper, lawful steps towards terminating this employment as, contrary to your ignorant assumptions, the law does not expect an employer to "fund disabled employees for life"

elsien

pupgrum wrote: »

If someone has a disability, only took several weeks off from work and then came back asking for minor adjustments made at work then I'm all for that. 6+ months out of work with no real prospect of returning to work is disgusting to employers.

No it's not. I had a staff member who was off for over 12 months due to cancer and needing a colostomy. She came back when she was well enough, with adjustments, and continued working effectively for years. She was worth the wait.

ampersand

I hope the op comes back, filtering out irrelevant, knowledge-free, judgmental posts that are not germane to the situ described. pupgrum has form and the ignore button has its uses.
Someone who needs to self-define thus 'Location: In a place you can never afford' has other problems.
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op- I wish you and OH well.

AylesburyDuck

andygb wrote: »

You are either a troll or a really nasty piece of work.

pupgrum wrote: »

So easily you label anyone saying something negative about disabled employees, yet your comment is hypocritically disgusting to employers who are unreasonably expected to fund disabled employees for life.

If someone has a disability, only took several weeks off from work and then came back asking for minor adjustments made at work then I'm all for that. 6+ months out of work with no real prospect of returning to work is disgusting to employers.

It's 2016 and disabled people have rights the same as able bodied people. You fight for one side and not the other while i would prefer to discrimintae against no one, i dont think thats unreasonable nor disgusting to employers.

ampersand wrote: »

I hope the op comes back, filtering out irrelevant, knowledge-free, judgmental posts that are not germane to the situ described. pupgrum has form and the ignore button has its uses.
Someone who needs to self-define thus 'Location: In a place you can never afford' has other problems.
#
op- I wish you and OH well.

Noted.:o

andygb

elsien wrote: »

No it's not. I had a staff member who was off for over 12 months due to cancer and needing a colostomy. She came back when she was well enough, with adjustments, and continued working effectively for years. She was worth the wait.

Well done Elsien, you are an employer who is worth their weight in gold.
About fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with a very serious (life threatening if it had gone unnoticed) condition which had become worse and worse.
Two weeks after I was diagnosed, started receiving treatment, and was well on the road to recovery, my employer decided to make me redundant - on the agreement that I trained up the person who was replacing me.