If a company did this?

Question

Hi,

I am with a job broker due to my disability and they were supposed to inform me of some training vacancies reserved for disabled people and they failed to inform me as my adviser was off sick.

They have other advisers who's clients were informed about these opportunities and I was informed that they were not allowed to inform the clients of the adviser who was off sick.

If a company ignored clients of someone who was off sick, what do you think the result of this action would be?

If it was you, what would you do?

Would you consider signing my petitions on disability rights.

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Answer 1

The types of adviser you mention are normally on commission based contracts, so they get paid for the placements they make.

It would be normal therefore, for an adviser to 'take care' of his own clients before looking at another advisers. That's the nature of the competitive society we live in I'm afraid.

They will probably have it written into their agreements, that all effort will be made to contact clients to make them aware of positions available. If they can prove this, and it would be easy, you don't have a leg to stand on. Please excuse the pun.

You are better off registering with more than one agency. That way there is a better chance that one of them will call when posts do come up.

Good luck with your search.

Answer 2

in absence of the facts I believe that the company actually did not do nothing wrong, you had your own personal adviser and he/she was responsible to you. it was just unfortunate that he/she was off sick at the time job notifications came up.

I really cannot see any fault with the company if you were given a personal adviser and you were happy to have a one to one contact, you cannot really complain if someone is sick and you lose out, I suppose when you went to the job broker a single one to one advisor was pointed out to you.and you were happy that no one else could act for your needs
you are just a victim of circumstance nothing else.even if you were not disabled you would have been treated in exactly the same way so what is the problem
you can only do anything if the rules are different for disabled if the rules are the same for both able bodied and disabled you may have a complaint but on the facts you have given if this is the case you have failed to make this clear

Answer 3

It may be that the current paranoia about 'personal information' led to your advisor being the only one able to deal with your file.

It does seem rather ridiculous to me that the company relies on personal advisors to pass this kind of information on when it could easily be done through automated emails and a centralised database, leaving the personal advisors free to follow up on people who were actually interested in the opportunities offered.

I've worked as a Business Systems Analyst and it seems a very inefficient way of operating, but I don't think it has much to do with disability rights.