Hi all, I'm looking for some advice on where I stand if I do, the company I work for is due to be taken over by another organisation as they won the contract when it went to tender, this process as ...
Discussion in Work and employment - 13 Apr 2024
Hi, I have cerebral palsy affecting my left arm and leg (left hemiplegia) and I would like to get a part-time job whilst at university, but my problem is I get very anxious about applying for job ...
Discussion in Work and employment - 1 Oct 2019
Would you be interested in advice on how to speak to your employer, or potential employers about your condition? Have you mentioned your condition or impairment to an employer in the ...
Discussion in Research and opportunities - 7 Jun 2022
Hello, I have had a "bad back" for 50 years or so. about 1996, I seriously injured it, had back surgery, which did not repair my back. but I kept working. I was in pain, but I modified most of my ...
Discussion in Physical and neurological impairments - 30 Aug 2023
Hi Everyone My first post so as well as saying "Hi" I was looking for some advice if possible please. I think that I have finally cracked up now and have gone off work with a stress induced relapse ...
Discussion in Work and employment - 23 Jun 2020
I was wondering who I should speak to about the situation i am in currently? This is the third year I have been working for my current employer, the first 2 years were ok, I felt comfortable talking ...
Discussion in Work and employment - 23 Jan 2019
Hi. I am here because I have deliberating cervicogenic headaches, a crushed T6 and disk tear at the L4 and L5. I am 60 years old. I am faced right now with either staying at work and risking losing my ...
Discussion in Chronic pain and pain management - 8 Jan 2018
It is National Epilepsy Awareness week and today we are talking to Isabella who is an actor about her experience of epilepsy and how she is still learning to come to terms with it. If you want to ...
Discussion in Disability rights and campaigning - 18 May 2017
hi all I am looking for advice. Background: I work in an SEN school, with children and young people who have disabilities. I have worked there for four years. I myself have autism and ocd. ...
Discussion in Work and employment - 20 May 2024
From Disability Rights UK Lack of reasonable adjustments in the workplace are “holding Disabled people back” at work, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned in a new report. The TUC report ...
Discussion in Work - 22 May 2025
