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Cleaner demands compensation claiming lack of English is disability

If native english speaking cleaners are also failing to earn the NWM then there is a case to answer but my take on this story is that despite having an own-language supervisor (which must make giving direction that much easier) the cleaner wasn't performing as required. It may be that her standards were much higher than hercolleague...

Comment | 10 Sep 2008
Cleaner demands compensation claiming lack of English is disability

So no problem being Disabled Dyslexic just functionally illiterate not a problem ? Supervisor sounds like a fine wonderful caring person tho.......

Comment | 9 Sep 2008
Religious beliefs: should employers cater for all faiths?

...d certainly be absent from work from November to February to cover several festivals. And still earn the same money as we currently do, of course!' Exaggerations aside, the question of whether employees should be entitled to days off for religious purposes is a genuine one. In January, a Muslim bus cleaner was awarded £10,000 compensation under the Employment Equality (Religious or Belief) Regulations 2003, after he was dismissed for taking six weeks off work to visit Mecca. Mohammed Sajwal Kahn took his annual 25 days' entitlement, plus extra unpaid leave, to carry out the pilgrimage. He claimed th...

Magazine issue | 1 May 2005