any advice really dont know where to turn right now, Hubby has worked for the same company for 17 years, his job has recently changed and there has been several months of conspiracy to get him out, Instead of looking at what adjustments they could make they have been on a mission to prove he cant do the new job with nothing short of lies.
The company appears to have followed correct procedure but have lied and fabricated questions to get the answers they require, one of them being can he walk 3 miles. of course he cant but a motorised vehicle had already been discussed with his immediate manager.
Its all about the work hours changing and they sold this to him, his consultant and the works doctor as being working 4x12 hour shifts together when the actual hours are mainly 2 on 2 off with the most days together being 3 days and only 2 instances of this in a month! a HUGE difference!
Everyhting that could incriminate them is missing from the case management package,( but we do have copies of the majority of them) he had the final stage meeting last week and was given 12 weeks notice, dont actually know what reason it is because he has asked the union rep about going for unfair dismissial and according to him he hasnt been dismissed. According to the case management package he should have been told how to appeal at the meeting and he wasnt, and still dont know ( time is ticking away fro he 14 day deadline)
He has said all along that he doesnt want to take early retirement but will be forced into something we cant live on the pension let alone nothing! and being capable of doing a job with the employer that is bound to make adjustments and keep you is very different to getting another job!
Hes now been told to apply for IHR although it looks like this should have been done before the final stage meeting came about, I cant see how he can be trying to prove he should have IHR and prove he can work 12 hour shifts at the same time?
He was asked to sign a disclaimer at the meeting and offered his notice pay to be paid tax free, he refused they apparantly were quite shocked. From what I can see they wernt actually giving him anything as aits just a different way of paying notice pay.
I really think he has more than enough to take this for discrimination
I cant believe you can work for an employer and come out of it with nothing but the pension you have paid for and be forced to have no job because of a disability.
any help and advice, tired local disability place before he actually lost his job they gave him the phone number of a good laywer and havent been able to contact.
he has secondary progressive and in the last 5 months its made him worse than the last 5 years have MS nurse does say its stress, making him worse.
Having felt that it would be a benefit to have my role at work reviewed with regard to how my performance is rated and what is expected of me, taking into consideration my condition, I wondered if anybody who has gone through this process can share what the outcome was and what information they had to provide their employer with. I have been informed that this will be a formal process invlolving H.R and Occupational Health. My G.P and Possibly Healthcare specialist will be contacted. I would love if someone could share any details of their experience of this.
Thanks guys x
Hi, I made a small survey within my neurologic team, first of all asked my M.S nurse, if he knew about the forum, and the wealth of information that could be found there, I said probably more than all the text books, the experience of real people, dealing with it every day. He said he had heard of it but had never used it, he then said he would ask around his team. I then asked the big chief himself a senior consultant, he said the same as the M.S Nurse. Well yesterday, saw my M.S. Nurse, he had asked, but only one person on the neurologic team, and that was a physio, who had found it useful, before going to a course on M.S, which was mainly about "Wii", if MS Sufferers would be able to use this to help there mobility, and the physio needed to look at a mass of information, on mobility, as they would have to fill out a questionaire, but as I pointed out to my m.s.nurse. its not just mobility, its being able to use eyes legs and arms all together, and I personally couldnt do it.
My point, is that this team covers mid and west wales, and hadnt thought of accessing the forum to help them gain knowledge of what is happening in the m.s community right now, not just from books, but real people who have no choice but to live within the limitations of this debilitating illness. They may get a real understanding, instead of a cursory look from all the patients, which usually at the most 15mins, how many of us when we have an appointment, find we havent covered all our concerns, and go on suffering in silence. Maybe there are some health professionals on the forum, but as far as my part of wales is concerned, this doesnt seem the norm, unless the forum is only for actual sufferers, do we have a guest list, say someone who just wants to use it to gain information, and not be a regular. I hope im not stepping out of line here, but feel it is a valid point Holly
Hi
On friday went to hospital, re my bladder, as I keep getting infection, I have always had problems, because I used to have endometrius, and this does cause problems. The specialist was very nice. and though my G.P had written to explain that I had been having cystitus, but it was not responding to treatment, and in the past this had also been the case, she wanted me to have a scan, anyway this specialist disagreed with the G.P and stated that most of their cases like mine, were all MS sufferers, my GPis convinced that I may have stones. So left the hospital discharged from that clinic.
I do find that because of the variety of symptoms found within M.S, most health professionals, are only too pleased to just take the symptoms as probably MS.
Sometime ago, i was having a lot of pain in my back, and put it down to the"MS Hug", anyway I collapsed, as I hadnt been to the doctor, I was diagnosed with Pnuemonia, and this they found was because I had pleurisy.
It is so easy to blame all symptom on MS, but what can we do to safeguard ourselves, I know that the health service is over stretched, but surely its safer to have things checked out, rather than write us off, you then feel as if you are a Hypochondriac, fussing and wasting the medical staff and the limited resources. I just dont know what the answer is.Holly
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