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<blockquote data-quote="tigger" data-source="post: 315576" data-attributes="member: 11023"><p>What rights of full disclosure are you referring to? </p><p></p><p>There is no duty to disclose information to your employer unless it affects your employment. If you do not want your employer to know you have children or asthma, you do not need to tell them providing it doesn't affect your responsibilities, your health and safety and you do not claim any of your statutory rights in relation to this. If you want to keep these matters private that is your choice.</p><p></p><p>Yes you lose your right to claim under the Equalities Act if your employer is unaware of your diabetes due to your failure to disclose (although a pre-employment questionnaire covers this) but that is not grounds for instant dismissal.</p><p></p><p>A fundamental breach of trust could be considered gross misconduct and merit dismissal but whether a failure to disclose diabetes would constitute this would depend very much on what your job is and its requirements. In addition, instant dismissal without due process would be a very dangerous thing for employers to do in these circumstances. Where it is peripheral to the job(which I believe my well-controlled diabetes is to a professional office job) then an employer would have a hard time claiming it is a fundamental breach of trust to not inform all my colleagues of my diabetes. Again this does depend on the type of job you do, its flexibility and the state of your diabetes. I have never had a problem taking time off for hospital appointments. Equally I often end up working in the evenings because of work. I have never had a problem testing or eating at my desk. Equally I often end up working through lunch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tigger, post: 315576, member: 11023"] What rights of full disclosure are you referring to? There is no duty to disclose information to your employer unless it affects your employment. If you do not want your employer to know you have children or asthma, you do not need to tell them providing it doesn't affect your responsibilities, your health and safety and you do not claim any of your statutory rights in relation to this. If you want to keep these matters private that is your choice. Yes you lose your right to claim under the Equalities Act if your employer is unaware of your diabetes due to your failure to disclose (although a pre-employment questionnaire covers this) but that is not grounds for instant dismissal. A fundamental breach of trust could be considered gross misconduct and merit dismissal but whether a failure to disclose diabetes would constitute this would depend very much on what your job is and its requirements. In addition, instant dismissal without due process would be a very dangerous thing for employers to do in these circumstances. Where it is peripheral to the job(which I believe my well-controlled diabetes is to a professional office job) then an employer would have a hard time claiming it is a fundamental breach of trust to not inform all my colleagues of my diabetes. Again this does depend on the type of job you do, its flexibility and the state of your diabetes. I have never had a problem taking time off for hospital appointments. Equally I often end up working in the evenings because of work. I have never had a problem testing or eating at my desk. Equally I often end up working through lunch. [/QUOTE]
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