Published on 12, July, 2020
Has anyone gone through one of these recently?
I am terrified the judge is just going to side with my employer who literally made me feel like some worthless crazy autistic person who wasn't worthy of working with children. I know of cases that ruled in favour of the bipolar person, but does society view bipolar equal to autism?
My employer was a school. My actions constituting gross misconduct were supporting autistic kids to understand and like themselves and find better ways of coping in school.
My employer also recently allowed boys to wear skirts when it was hot and called it "gender neutral". No one is allowed to wear shorts. Skirts or trousers for everyone.
Hi Laura, We do have some information about autism and employment rights, advice etc on this page - https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/employment/support-at-work/autistic-adults - which you might want to have a look at. Although I don't think we have information on employment tribunals specifically, if you scroll down to the links at the bottom I would recommend looking through some of the further information there, like the website for ACAS, which says it offers 'employees and employers free, impartial advice on workplace rights, rules and best practice. We also offer training and help to resolve disputes.'Hope this is of some help, Ross - mod
Yes it was totally of use for me, I have requested on my employment tribunal as a "remedy" that my ex-employer offers training to all staff delivered by the NAS or approved partners. I have been living in hell between what ACAS told me, what the equality act told me, and what I find on here vs my trade union telling me "they're allowed to do that" when I cited they were bullying me and ignoring my mitigations for why I did the actions I did. It's just the life autistic, being anxious of the unknown, fearing everything around me, fearing that I am actually delusional and that I did bad bad things and am too disabled to recognise it...... gaslighting is so harmful to me. I never realised how naive I was til this past 18 months :( thanks for the signposting :)