I was asked to give advice to a lady who works for a local community radio
station and who has MS. She works as a volunteer presenter and has a live
chat show on a Saturday morning which she has successfully being doing for a
number of years. The station manager wants to shift her show to the middle
of the afternoon on a week day. The lady works part time during the week
and has told the manager that she would be too tired to do the show. He has
told her that she should record the show instead, but this lady says that it
would change the nature of the show that she does. She feels that the
reasons for moving the show have not been given and are perhaps based on
personal grieviences with the manager. Unfortunately she does not have a
formal contract of employment although other volunteers have signed one. In
any case she feels that she is being discriminated against because of her
disability and that the changes being proposed are both petty and
unreasonable. Can anyone tell me whether she is in any way protected by the
DDA?
Many thanks
Malcolm Crate
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