I posted before Christmas about issues I was having, after I was referred to Occupational Health and the report came back full of errors and omissions. I can’t find that post now, but I was advised on here to list the errors and omissions and to send the list to HR. I did that and eventually got a meeting with the HR Advisor for our area.
By the time I got to the meeting, I had taken advice from my union and also from the Equality Advice and Support Helpline, both of whom had confirmed that a chronic, lifelong, incurable condition which, when it flares, makes me completely incapable of doing my job, would be regarded as a disability under the terms of the Equality Act. I checked this because the Occupational Health Assessor had said in her report that I did not have protection under the Act because I was only diagnosed last August. I am assured this is a complete red herring.
I explained my concerns to our HR Advisor and she basically dismissed them all. She does not see any need to correct the things that are wrong in the report, because I am not experiencing any problems at work at the moment. If I do, in the future, she says HR will support me, but I don’t see how they can do that without the proper information. For example, the report says I had three episodes of my condition last year, when in fact I had twenty two!
The HR Advisor told me she thought it was my background (law) which was making me query the report and she suggested I should take up meditation or Pilates to reduce my stress levels!
All she offered was to put my subsequent e mails on file with the report, but I’m concerned that this will just make me look like one of those people who makes a fuss about everything. I’ve worked for the organisation for ten years and this is my first interaction with HR. I only went to Occupational Health in the first place because my manager thought it was a good idea – and they haven’t answered her questions either!
I’ve spoken to the union and they say it’s up to me whether I pursue this to set the record straight, but again they think that if there are no issues at the moment I should just leave it.
Am I losing the plot? Is it so wrong to want to have my information corrected?
Thanks