Disabled Groundsman Sacked after 27 years spotless service

[Armadale]

I was so moved by this article and the campaign by friends and family to get this man reinstated.

27 years unblemished service and they can't find him a role in the new organisation..

I don't know much about employment law or disability rights, but surely he must have some legal recourse?

Looks like they've tried by engaging specialist advice - no-one has a job for life.

Agree with you Armadale.

I didn't realise he is the only one of the existing workers to lose his job and he has been there the longest.

Everybody is supporting him and the campaign has gone global. I hope the company changes its mind.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515696/Petition-disabled-groundsman-job-goes-global.html

The direct link for the petition if anyone wants to sign.

www.change.org/petitions/landscape-group-limited-let-daniel-keep-his-job-2

I signed it earlier.

"Daniel’s devastated family launched an online petition - which clocked up 6,000 signatures in one week world-wide"

Great credit to his family for not sitting back and accepting it as I and most other people would have done, thinking that nothing could be done. It shows how powerful petitions really are and how they can spread all over the world via the internet.

I've just signed this petition. As the mother of a son with disabilities, this could happen to him too.

That company don't deserve such a committed worker. I hope he soon finds an appreciative employer elsewhere.

I hope the man takes the company to an industrial tribunal and sues for unfair dismissal and disablity discrimination.

Signed. It's the council and their rotten contractors who have changed the working environment to make it unsuitable for him. They can fecking well change their stupid plans to make a job available for him. Swines.

'No-one has a job for life'. Hah! Except the sort of parasitical 'management consultants' who parrot the 'no jobs for life' phrase. Everyone I know at PWC and McKinsey's and the like HAS worked their all their lives. One rule for the 'no jobs for life' brigade and another rule for everyone else.

I've signed it too.

so unfair and wow, what an example that guy is to some of the lazy entitled yoof of today - 27 yrs and never late or phoned in sick. outside work in all weathers, doing thankless, menial work and proud to get on and earn his wages. I'm sure he's sad and loved his job but actually, you would think other employers would be queuing up to take him on, with that record! shame on the bosses.