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#FBLC Long Covid Support Employment Group advocate @long_covid, #LongCovidWork team member
Oct 19 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I am rarely at a loss. But I am at a loss. When I started advocating for workplace rights for people with #LongCovid it was in response to personal experience and to horrific stories of people losing jobs to what is, ultimately, disability discrimination. 1/1
Exhausted people, many made ill by workplace infection, battling cognitive problems, unable to stand up to bad bosses or fight tribunals with no funds, while the employers had lawyers, money, time and energy to wear them down. The response needed was to stop these job losses. 2/2
Mar 17 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🧵OK, folks, while we wait for #LongCovid clinical experts to challenge Friday's cunning stunt in the press, here's what you can do (pls read thread):
Complain to the Guardian or their regulator Impress
That paper should know bettershorturl.at/yLRTWor impressorg.com/standards/comp…
For Daily Mail: corrections@dailymail.co.uk.
For Telegraph:
Or don’t waste time and go straight to their regulator IPSO under the clause 1 Accuracy (Discrimination clause is *deliberately designed to fail* - don't bother)...shorturl.at/vHUV4 ipso.co.uk/complain/Compl…
Feb 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
No economic sense in ending #SelfIsolation. 1 in 4 bosses say #LongCovid the main cause of sickness absence. Of UK population almost 2% are #pwLC (40% for 1-2 years). You can't fill 500,000 posts when tens of thousands a month are losing jobs to illness @longcovidwork@long_covid
At least two in three #pwLC are frontline workers (ONS, TUC, @long_covid data). @longcovidwork we hear of more and more losing jobs. There are 100,000+ vacancies in the NHS alone, doctors and nurses. Can the #NHS afford to lose more to infection and disability? @sajidjavid
