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Discrimination at work: grievances and early steps
Early documentation improves outcomes. Many situations mix capability processes with disability issues — separate facts, dates, and witnesses.
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Early documentation improves outcomes. Many situations mix capability processes with disability issues — separate facts, dates, and witnesses.
- Keep a dated timeline of events and requests.
- Raise issues formally through grievance where safe to do so.
- Ask for adjustments during any process itself.
- Get specialist advice for tribunal deadlines — timescales are strict.
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- 1Keep a dated timeline of events and requests.
- 2Raise issues formally through grievance where safe to do so.
- 3Ask for adjustments during any process itself.
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Early documentation improves outcomes. Many situations mix capability processes with disability issues — separate facts, dates, and witnesses.
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- Keep a dated timeline of events and requests.
- Raise issues formally through grievance where safe to do so.
- Ask for adjustments during any process itself.
- Get specialist advice for tribunal deadlines — timescales are strict.
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- Ask for adjustments during any process itself.
- Get specialist advice for tribunal deadlines — timescales are strict.
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- Keep a dated timeline of events and requests.
- Raise issues formally through grievance where safe to do so.
- Ask for adjustments during any process itself.
- Get specialist advice for tribunal deadlines — timescales are strict.
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- Keep a dated timeline of events and requests.
- Raise issues formally through grievance where safe to do so.
- Ask for adjustments during any process itself.
- Keep a dated timeline of events and requests.
- Raise issues formally through grievance where safe to do so.
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