I don't really understand your point jjm2016.
He is not looking to be parachuted into a job. He was getting some sort of payment towards his transport, tax relief or something. I'm not sure of the specifics. His father used to transport him to and from work. His father had a stroke and can no longer drive. He can't get the payment for a taxi and no public transport is available.
He's now learning to drive and looking at buying a specially adapted car. This takes time.
So no, none of it is his employers fault but he's been with them a good few years and is very capable at doing his job. He was just hoping for some help with his situation from them. To do his job until he can get his affairs in order. It'll take him even longer to get sorted out because he's now on welfare so trying to pay for lessons and a car etc, he's going to struggle.
It'd be nice if his employers were a bit more understanding (they've allowed people to work from home for various periods due to their own personal circumstances) but won't allow him to.
I just hoped there was something that would help his case but obviously not.
SBarrett there are various ways an employer can make reasonable accommodations for a disabled employee. Things like desks, ramps etc but also reduced hours, adaptable start times, working from home etc are all also listed as possible reasonable accommodations employers can make.
First of all this has to be a very stressful time for the person involved having to deal with his father having a stroke and all that brings without having to deal with the fact it directly affected there employment.
When you start down the legal
The first thing that springs to mind is where I work if something like this happened the first thing we would do is have a collection to pay for a taxi or driving lessons or pay someone to be insured and drive there fathers car to bring them to and from work after all the only extra cost is the driver,there are lots of home carers and friends of there fathers /there who could do this until problem got resolved,I am sure if you had a collection company would match collection in fact i would go so far as to say they would keep it going until it got sorted if the person involved contributed something towards cost ,At present they are sitting at home and according to you getting very little,they would be as well off going to work even if they finish up no better off,most companies would have a small employees relations budget especially USA companies,
When you start down the legal road it is often the employees who suffer the most to give you an example some poster suggested going out sick when the problem required fixing is transport,
where i work some employment contract of employment says permanent days others say 2 or 3 cycle shift others say permanent night shift all an the same basic wage + a % for the different shifts ,there is a form you fill up and company will work around changing shift without changing contract,Really the only thing in it for the company is employee retention and a low absenteeism,from time to time company will have to chop and change and so far no problem,
The law was changed a few years ago stating if you were to change shift after so long you cannot be changed back both employer and employee know this but everyone understands the day someone brings the law into it in the day it will be discontuned, lots of employees use it to work around child care,
We have a sick pay system in place going back to the early eighties,it is broke into two sections one section like your own tracks hospital/surgary. other tracks sick days if we start acting the maggot like some suggested it would get pulled for good this is the agreement and is a very valuable entitlement,
You said you don't understand my point unfortunately I have being down this road with a sibling around 17 years ago ,Recall a bit rusty at this stage ,That why I said they should have got help advice from some of the disabled lobby groups,I know at the time the had two options one was to wait a long time and let everything go trough the system it would have worked out a lot better if the waited financially if they waited until the were in the system,they wanted to go back to work as they did not want to be left behind in there career if the bought or modified a car it would have come against them to qualify later but they went with this option ,