The workplace and knowing your rights with Rebecca Armstrong

Thursday 15 February at 6pm

Our next workshop focuses on legal rights and working with MS. The session will provide practical tips to understanding your workplace rights that is crucial for a positive and productive experience when navigating the complex landscape of employment regulations.

Our host is Rebecca Armstrong who is an MSer and expert in HR. Rebecca works on behalf of solicitors on complex case management where discrimination is happening. This will provide a wealth of real-life examples and scenarios and giving practical advice on how to navigate work with MS and how to make challenges when you need to.

Rebecca established the Facebook group ‘MS & Work’ in order to use her knowledge to support people with MS facing challenges in the workplace. You may have seen her regular articles in our New Pathways magazine and you can search on our blog page to see her blogs on employment law.

The session will cover the most commonly asked about topics and give you the information you need for navigating difficult situations with your employers and ensure you have the right support in your workplace. These will include

• The Equality Act 210 and how it protects people with MS at work
• What is a reasonable adjustment and how to get one?
• Disclosure; do you need to tell your employer?
• Sickness, absence and how it should be handled
• Dealing with discriminatory behaviour at work
• Leaving employment; a whistle-stop tour of unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, fair capability dismissal and medical retirement
• We will answer all your questions live on the call or in follow up on email if we don’t have time on the night

For more information on MS and work, please visit our webpage to view pages on employment law, reasonable adjustments and other related workplace topics. You mat also like to know that we host a fortnightly peer pod for those who would like to discus workplace related issues with other with MS here.

If you can’t make the session live, don’t worry as we will be recording the presentation and will make it available to watch again for all those registering in advance.

How to book

To join this session, please login or register in our Portal area. The session is free to join if you have a monthly or year subscription. You do not need a subscription to join, as you can register and provide a donation for the class. The suggested amount for the class is £5. If you unable to make a donation, please contact us to see how you can access the online classes.

A recording will be made available on the portal after the class and can be viewed if you have purchased a ticket either before or after the class has taken place.

If you would like to know more or you are having trouble registering, please contact us at register@ms-uk.org.