[DanBC]

> Day One of her cool new job in the UK NHS she was handed a stack of paperwork that she had to fill in. Needless to say she did badly; it took her forever and everything was misspelled. She lasted a month before they let her go, and she was glad to go. Her degree was very vocational - there aren't many opportunities for qualified OTs outside the health industry - and every single OT needs to deal with stacks of paperwork every day. [0]

I'm sorry to hear your ex-girlfriend's employer failed in their legal duty to provide reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act.

If it was a trust in England I'd be happy to push through complaints for her.

[marcus_holmes]

Yeah I was interested in this, too. It was a major hospital in Cardiff in 1998. She wasn't keen on pursuing them because the entire culture of the place was hostile, and she was pretty broken by the experience. She did go on to work briefly as an OT for a care home in England, but found a lot of the same problems with paperwork even though they tried to accommodate her. The basic problem remained; this is a paperwork-intensive job, and she sucked at paperwork because of her dyslexia.

What are the options, and what are the legal responsibilities for the employer here?