Fw: brave deaf man --who took on a big disability group

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From: Dermot M.J.Hayes
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 4:22 PM
To: thomaschambers@eircom.net
Subject: Re: brave deaf man --who took on a big disability group

Comrade
How you on a wet and bleak day in Mayo where the sun has not found yet.
Clare is wet and sticky.

Sorry Tom cannot open the piece you sent.

Try again in different format.
Slan

Comrade Hayes from the I a Tulla sub group
On 24/01/2013 10:39, thomaschambers@eircom.net wrote:
> Hi Dermot,
> Enclosed is a response from a presentation carried by the NDA for the
> government.
> Tom
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> From: Dermot M.J.Hayes
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> Subject: brave deaf man --who took on a big disability group
>
> Hello.
>
> Well done to this guy who took on the IWA and my guess is there is a lot
> of this silent discrimination against disabled people with in organization
> of disability.
> Low level bullying and undocumented discrimination.
>
>
> Slan
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> Dermot
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> Wheelchair body pays €10,000 for discrimination
> 134 84 38
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> A major advocate for the disabled has been ordered to pay a deaf man
> €10,000 in compensation after a tribunal found that it discriminated
> against him on the basis of disability.
>
> The Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) was found by the Equality Tribunal
> to have discriminated against Kevin Stanley on the grounds of disability
> contrary to the Employment Equality Acts by failing to provide "reasonable
> accommodation" for his disability when he was invited to a job interview.
>
> Mr Stanley, former manager of the Irish Deaf Society, had claimed that he
> was discriminated against by the IWA by failing to allow him sufficient
> time to book an Irish sign language (ISL) interpreter to attend a job
> interview with him.
>
> Mr Stanley, who is an assistant project researcher for the Irish Congress
> of Trade Unions, said he not only feels personally vindicated by the
> decision but believes it is a win for the entire deaf community in
> Ireland.
>
> He said last night: "I was disappointed and hurt by the refusal of the IWA
> to reasonably accommodate a difficulty that is no fault of mine."
>
> Officials from the IWA did not comment on the matter last night.
>
> Irish Independent
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