son left job is he able to claim?

Horace

Anyone can go to an employment tribunal - you can submit the documents online too. Unions go there too but no reason why a non-union person can't either. An employment tribunal adjudicates on whether or not a person has been unfairly treated/dismissed whatever by an employer - the tribunal can award costs. As it is disability related, I would be speaking to the disability rights commission - www.drc.org.uk (I think the web address is right) and they can give some advice although they won't take the employer to a tribunal (not normally anyway).

The employment tribunal website is very good and gives guidance on how to claim (can't remember the web address but if you google Employment Tribunal then it should come up). I have previously taken a prospective employer to a tribunal for disability discrimination for not complying with their remit (to find work for disabled people) but they refuse to employ them directly. Funnily enough, I got the interview although I decided that the company wasn't right for me due to their attitudes towards people per se.

Also if he goes to the Job Centre to sign on, he can ask to see a Disability Employment Advisor (this is someone who is there to help disabled people back into work). These guys really do help, I was unfairly dismissed from my employer back in August and I am taking them to a tribunal for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination (my union is helping me do this). My Disability Employment Advisor has recently found me my dream job and I start it on Friday (initially, it is less money than I was receiving in my old job but after a month my salary will be increased so it will be more than I was receiving in my old job).

Good luck.

ictquizzer

Whilst the last thing I would encourage is someone starting to claim Incapacity Benefit if they don't really need to, I have to (obviously!) sympathise with both you and your son's situations.

I am not sure of the extent of his health problems - and I am not sure if your son himself is aware of them - but if you struggle to get a JSA claim accepted then you could always go down the route of an Incapacity Benefit/Income Support claim. This would obviously depend on the co-operation of your son's doctor and whether he is willing to do go down this route. This is not something I would normally recommend but it may well be the only way of getting money for him until he finds another job, should his JSA claim be sanctioned. This is would also open the door for him to Personal Advisors who would be able to offer him help getting back into work.

Just a thought, hope it doesn't come to this and his JSA claim goes through smoothly!

vastsarah_2

thankyou again,AS isnt some thing he thinks about,his brother has it and we all joke that the boys have traits of it,but he wont even amit that he dyslexic even thought that been tested and proven in himself and brothers.
When at school he was classed as having learning diff before the dyslexic was reconized.
Today he going to look for a job im sorting his banking out online.
tomorrow im driving him to job centre
sarah