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I raised a tribunal case based on disability and at a pre hearing have been asked to give more specific details and show what each of the issues I raised are linked to in the Equality Act. I think I'm ok with the main ones but a two or three of the smaller ones /one offs I'm not so sure about. They are listed below and any thoughts would be appreciated on if they can be included and if so what against. I consider myself to have a mental health disability and come under the Equality Act. Again I have been asked to provide a statement covering that and I think all that was requested is in and complies with the definition in the Equality Act.
1. I raised a polite challenge . The manager rang me. I struggled with the call . They wanted to have a more detailed call the following day. I explained that I had been stressed by that call and for my health would prefer written responses to the questions I had asked. I tried this two or three times but they insisted. I ended up with a call lasting over 90 minutes and my wife who was upstairs when the call began became so concerned she came down to see if I was ok.
2. Having previously been off with depression I was continuing my challenge but had been back at work several weeks. In the week to ten days leading up to a phone call from my line manager I was covering for a colleague who was on leave (basically doing 2 people's work), pointing out an issue with a system to a higher level colleague and finding and solving the problem (not my role) and being Pro active in telecoms and being the first to respond when the team letter asked the team for their thoughts on something. A small commendation about me was even sentto my line manager shortly before he rang me and he admitted he had seen it. When he rang the first thing he said was ,was I fit to be at work. This question continued and got more aggressive until I answered it. I felt this was purely down to the ongoing challenge I was making and my mental health condition and based on what work I was doing around that time shouldn't have been asked.
3. In another what are described as weekly catch-ups we were a few minutes into the call when he clearly didn't like something I had said and in an agressive tone said that a posting I had responded to on an internal forum regarding mental health had been seen by HR and they considered that it could be seen as bringing the business into disrepute and that formal action could be taken against me. Again I feel this was possibly handled this way because of my ongoing challenge which by this time had resulted in several relationship breakdowns and a mediation meeting to try and resolve it.
I raised a tribunal case based on disability and at a pre hearing have been asked to give more specific details and show what each of the issues I raised are linked to in the Equality Act. I think I'm ok with the main ones but a two or three of the smaller ones /one offs I'm not so sure about. They are listed below and any thoughts would be appreciated on if they can be included and if so what against. I consider myself to have a mental health disability and come under the Equality Act. Again I have been asked to provide a statement covering that and I think all that was requested is in and complies with the definition in the Equality Act.
1. I raised a polite challenge . The manager rang me. I struggled with the call . They wanted to have a more detailed call the following day. I explained that I had been stressed by that call and for my health would prefer written responses to the questions I had asked. I tried this two or three times but they insisted. I ended up with a call lasting over 90 minutes and my wife who was upstairs when the call began became so concerned she came down to see if I was ok.
2. Having previously been off with depression I was continuing my challenge but had been back at work several weeks. In the week to ten days leading up to a phone call from my line manager I was covering for a colleague who was on leave (basically doing 2 people's work), pointing out an issue with a system to a higher level colleague and finding and solving the problem (not my role) and being Pro active in telecoms and being the first to respond when the team letter asked the team for their thoughts on something. A small commendation about me was even sentto my line manager shortly before he rang me and he admitted he had seen it. When he rang the first thing he said was ,was I fit to be at work. This question continued and got more aggressive until I answered it. I felt this was purely down to the ongoing challenge I was making and my mental health condition and based on what work I was doing around that time shouldn't have been asked.
3. In another what are described as weekly catch-ups we were a few minutes into the call when he clearly didn't like something I had said and in an agressive tone said that a posting I had responded to on an internal forum regarding mental health had been seen by HR and they considered that it could be seen as bringing the business into disrepute and that formal action could be taken against me. Again I feel this was possibly handled this way because of my ongoing challenge which by this time had resulted in several relationship breakdowns and a mediation meeting to try and resolve it.
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