Employers in the UK employers are not supposed to discriminate at all, be that race, gender, sexuality, gender identity or disability, including mental health.
To me it looks like they didn't like her, and trying to get her on a technicality, i mean why would she say she is disabled if she was feeling well when applying for that job?
BTW, she won the case against her
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Originally Posted by perpetuallysad
I have been treated very badly by a former employer (actually by many of the employees there) because I was "different" and ended up being "run off" because they made me so miserable, by law they couldn't fire me because of mental illness, so they made my life unbearable there. To top it off, they completely blackballed me (I worked for a university) and I am not allowed to be employed there ever again.
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I'm sorry that this happened to you, i was constructively dismissed myself. It's totally unfair, and makes everything far harder than it needs to be.