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Employers not understanding my autism

Creativemum

My daughter has a problem where the employer doesn't understand how autism impacts her drive to the office.

Traffic is unpredictable and often awful making my daughter late. She leaves plenty of time to travel  but can still have problems.

Employer has told her to check Google maps every day then chose different routes dependant on each days traffic. Also suggested using a mixture of driving and public transport.

All of this plus increases to required office attendance causes a build up of stress and anxiety.

I think all this is completely unreasonable. She's good at her job and valued in the workplace, but it seems there is a complete lack of understanding where ASD is concerned.

Can she get them to make reasonable adjustments like reducing office attendance, sticking to fixed schedules, and making allowances or enabling discrepancies in attendance to be made up at the end of shift for example?

I can't stand seeing her so upset, when she has such a good work ethic and hates confrontation.

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  • You can ask for reasonable adjustments like different start and finish times and home working. By law the employer must consider. If they refuse, the employer must provide a valid explanation as a justification. If not they leave the door open for discrimination claims.

    It all sounds so easy but in my case has led to effectively ending my career and after a number of months and years still no further forward.

    Some employers are good but some are woeful. Even with the support of occupational health and employer can ignore their recommendations. The only recourse is legal.

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  • You can ask for reasonable adjustments like different start and finish times and home working. By law the employer must consider. If they refuse, the employer must provide a valid explanation as a justification. If not they leave the door open for discrimination claims.

    It all sounds so easy but in my case has led to effectively ending my career and after a number of months and years still no further forward.

    Some employers are good but some are woeful. Even with the support of occupational health and employer can ignore their recommendations. The only recourse is legal.

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