sidthemanager
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Sorry I only just picked up on this thread when a friend copied me in here. I am the founder of the IRFDUK (link in earlier post) and for the past 24 years have offered free advocacy and advice for people with various disabilities (predominantly T1 diabetes). In October 2012 our 500th person with insulin-treated diabetes was returned to work where they had previously been medically suspended or dismissed or recruited into jobs previously proscribed to people with diabetes. My advocacy is untrained ie I am not a lawyer or a doctor, but I can hold my own with both of these professions when representing people who are in control of their condition. I do not charge for my advocacy, but do expect my bus fare home. 
Discipline is routinely used for some petty or made up offence to keep the employer looking as though the diabetes is an irrelevance. Similarly if someone needs to pop to the loo more regularly or wants somewhere to inject discreetly, the failure of employers to make even simple reasonable adjustments is commonplace with disciplinary action being meted out indiscriminately for not being at your desk - despite the 20 minute smoke breaks by peers that occurred at one previous case! My direct email for enquiries if you are still running into bad employment practices is [email protected]
Discipline is routinely used for some petty or made up offence to keep the employer looking as though the diabetes is an irrelevance. Similarly if someone needs to pop to the loo more regularly or wants somewhere to inject discreetly, the failure of employers to make even simple reasonable adjustments is commonplace with disciplinary action being meted out indiscriminately for not being at your desk - despite the 20 minute smoke breaks by peers that occurred at one previous case! My direct email for enquiries if you are still running into bad employment practices is [email protected]