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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
If any absence is due to a disability, it should not be classed as mainstream sickness absence and should not be subject to any policies designed to deal with sickness absence that is deemed to be excessive or questionable. To do so is legally viewed as disability discrimination.
As the DWP is trying to get disabled people into work and working disabled people may require more time off, it's an outrage that they either don't know the law or believe that they are above the law.
I'm not sure where you got that quote from, but I highly doubt that they mean that she was off work for four years.
As for your "either you can do the job or you can't" comment, what are disabled claimants supposed to do if they are told that the DWP has deemed them to be fit for work (using their flawed and discredited criteria for evaluating this)?
They go and find employment with the DWP themselves, need some time off work due to their disability and are then disciplined for it!
They can't have it both ways.
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There comes a point even if there is a genuine disability where they cannot do the job. Plenty of examples where people are "swinging the lead" or making fraudulent claims. Used to be back pain, nowadays depression is the "in thing".