Go to Employment Tribunal?

[WorrieaboutFIL]

Should I do this? I'm really upset after being dismissed during my probation, particularly as I had asked for adjustments (due to disability) and these were completely dismissed.

Yes I told them at 3pm. At 5pm I dismissed.

What’? You can magnify huge. An extending probation after the first week is odd;

I think you need to let this go.

I can’t assist unless you answer my questions

Agree, windows you can magnify to 60x I think?

They can dismiss you for any reason in the first 2 years. You won't stand a chance of proving it was because of your diabetes.

Also, you would need to set out the outcome you want from conciliation or a tribunal hearing. You want the job back? Unlikely that would work well, imagine working in those circumstances... so compensation?

It is tiny amounts. Your legal fees would be more than you win back. The maximum they award is around £12k for something like basic sex or maternity discrimination.

Those stories you read of people getting 100s of k are because those people were able to prove high damages - their future career and earnings impact based on the ruining of their reputation or massive setback. They are usually bankers or lawyers.

If your job was admin then I'm afraid to say it isn't worth it. I recommend moving on.

However there is nothing stopping you from going to acas first. Sometimes it scares them into giving a small settlement for signing an NDA. Likely no more than a couple of thousand, or maybe a weeks notice.

Your other option is to force a good reference out of them with acas if that's what you're concerned about, not being able to get the next job because of their unreasonable actions. Might be an option.

If in probation period and therefore not there long reasons for dismissal don't have to be much just you don't fit. As others said you probably will loose more than gain.

My understanding is that you would only be successful at a tribunal if you can show that you were dismissed because of your disability.

From what you've posted it appears that you had been pulled up on accuracy and told that you were underperforming, after which you notified them that you needed adjustments due to diabetes making your eyes blurry and anxiety.

From what you are saying you had taken no steps to address the eye problems before even though you must have been aware of them, no eye test or changes to your screen settings or use of the built in accessibility features like zoom, screen reader etc.

You were also very early in your probation/trial period.

I would suspect that ACAS will advise that an employment tribunal wouldn't be a wise move.

I told them by email that I had a disability and would like support/adjustments. The next time I had a meeting which I reiterated my conditions. The next email I received was refusal to make any adjustments whatsoever, and official dismissal.

My reading is that it is discrimination if no attempt to make reasonable adjustments, or support alternatives are made.

As an aside, my manager took a dislike to me after disclosing I had a child. I can't prove this however.

You asked to extend your probation withing the first 12 days of employment?

How long was the original probation period?

And that was only one of a range of adjustments I requested, the main being an extension to my probation.

The probation is irrelevant though. A reasonable adjustment is something to enable you to do your job, extending your probation period isn't unless you have to wait for equipment to be provided and you're waiting for longer than probation.

Yes I did use on screen tools, as much as they were available. I was using a Mac for the the first time and it wasn't easy to get to grip with it :-(

My reading is that it is discrimination if no attempt to make reasonable adjustments, or support alternatives are made

but your reasonable adjustments wouldn’t help you to do your job. You should have got glasses before you started or saw an optician immediately and you should have been using bigger font or magnifying to do your work or check it. What you’re saying is illogical.

Probation was 3 months and I worked 2 days per week week. With holidays and gardening leave, I've worked 12 days.

You said you had blurred vision - that’s the point at which you should have altered the font size etc. not after you’d made errors that someone else picked up.

I'm sorry why is needing time to implement a change once it's raised illogical? Not everything disability related can be ameliorated at the click of a finger.

So why couldn’t you see an optician or use magnifying or bigger font`?

Is this serious? Because you don’t need time to make a change to make the font bigger.

So you had 3months to visit the opticians? 3months to raise your eyesight with a professional.

But instead you spent 3 months squinting at a screen typing gobeldygook and then asked for a extension, and a IMAX screen to work from 🤔

Probation was 3 months and I worked 2 days per week week. With holidays and gardening leave, I've worked 12 days.

Bloody hell so you were there for two or three months and in that time never thought to google 'how to magnify display in MacBook'. Come on OP you're just taking the piss now.

Because I didn't know it was so urgent that I would be dismissed immediately, even the equipment they gave me didn't work. I was working flat out , making improvements and doing everything asked of me. The dismissal was sprung on me!

Prior to this dismissal meeting had you had any other conversations / probation reviews?, were you aware that your performance was below expectations?

Of course it was urgent to get your work right? Is this your first job? It’s not school.

I'm going to step away from the thread because certain posters are flinging unwarranted personal attacks during what has been a very upsetting time for me. It's not a game. It's my livelihood stake.

I think you're settling yourself up for failure if you go to tribunal with this.
Look to the future, move on, and join a union.