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Access to Work crisis: Advice worker could lose her job over ‘ridiculous’ ruling

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Employment, Human Rights, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Advice worker could lose her job over ‘ridiculous’ ruling
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A Deaf advice worker could lose her job because of a “ridiculous” ruling by Access to Work advisers, who rejected her application because they claimed the interpreters who helped her communicate with clients were “doing the work” for her. Lottie Powell […]

Access to Work crisis: Shock government request to employers

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Shock government request to employers
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The government has resorted to asking employers to move Deaf members of staff to jobs that require less use of interpreters, according to campaigners protesting about the coalition’s changes and cuts to the troubled Access to Work (AtW) scheme. Members of […]

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