{"id":125222,"date":"2014-06-19T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=125222"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:24:04","slug":"disabled-staff-victimised-sickness-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/disabled-staff-victimised-sickness-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled staff &#8216;victimised&#8217; by sickness policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">DISABLED staff are being \u201cvictimised and terrorised\u201d by company bosses using draconian sickness policies, public-sector workers warned yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Far too many workplaces are applying the same attendance management policies to all staff regardless of whether or not they have a disability, Unison conference heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is leaving disabled workers feeling guilty for having a disability, delegates said, with many companies using it to get rid of them \u201cthrough the back door.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Highlighting employers\u2019 obsession with sickness absence, Newport\u2019s Steph Davies said: \u201cI\u2019m not alone in witnessing members being interrogated about their absence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBut many managers don\u2019t understand disability and mental health is an area that particularly worries me. Employers have no empathy and are afraid to approach them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstaronline.co.uk\/a-f95c-Disabled-staff-victimised-by-sickness-policies\/#.U6MAl1fEaUk\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISABLED staff are being \u201cvictimised and terrorised\u201d by company bosses using draconian sickness policies, public-sector workers warned yesterday. Far too many workplaces are applying the same attendance management policies to all staff regardless of whether or not they have a disability, Unison conference heard. This is leaving disabled workers feeling guilty for having a disability, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}