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Hey everyone!

How's it going? 😊

Living with a chronic illness often brings challenges in balancing work and health. While there are laws in the UK protecting the rights of employees with disabilities or chronic conditions, the reality can sometimes feel different.

💬 Let’s discuss!

  • Have you experienced challenges at work due to your health? How were they handled?
  • Do you feel employers in the UK provide enough support for employees with chronic conditions?
  • What changes would you like to see in workplace policies to better accommodate chronic illness?


Whether you’ve had positive or negative experiences, your voice matters! Let’s share our stories and ideas to inspire change and understanding.

🌟 Looking forward to your thoughts,
Somya from the Carenity Team 🌼

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13/01/2025 at 13:17

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After I had been passed over for a promotion, due to a birth defect, the benefactor immediately became harassing to force me from the company. I told the “COO” she was finding fault with literally (not practically or often) everything I did, and he called it hyperbole. I realized my only option was to find a way to allow more time to do the typing she criticized constantly, even though she was very well aware of my inability to type without extreme struggling, and lost time.

I began to separate my work in two stacks. One was the work I could do off the computer and the other was only typing. That way I could go in before sunrise and work off the clock, which she obsessed over too. After almost seven years of twelve to fifteen hour days she realized even constant pressure was not going to run me off.

She forced me to take the first vacation of my life; and, on my return, I was called into a conference room by her boss (Who in more than two decades had never initiated a conversation with me) and the ‘HR’ manager fired me (Even though she practically admitted it was not justified.)

The EEOC supported this unjustified termination from the outset.. They endorse "reasonable accommodation"; because, without practical insight, they never even consider "appropriate accommodations".



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13/01/2025 at 15:57

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@LifeDelineator I hope you hired a good attorney and sued them!


Chronic illness and the workplace: Rights or reality? https://www.carenity.co.uk/forum/other-discussions/good-to-know/chronic-illness-and-the-workplace-rights-or-re-5562 2025-01-13 15:57:39

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@VICKICOFFEY - A good attorney would have only drained our bank account.

Pro Bono attorneys only happen in Hollywood and on telelevision.


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I don't have a job as I'm unemployed and disabled and unemployable

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