Anyone been discriminated against due to health issues?

I wasn't discriminated against when I was working but once I became too ill to work things changed. I don't look
particularly ill most of the time. But how I look and how I feel can be two totally different things. One of the benefits I receive is a Blue Badge. This seems to upset some people (strangers) who see me park up in the disabled spot and feel they have to right to challenge me and tell me that I'm not in need of a Blue Badge and I'm cheating the system. There is nothing you can say to these people that will persuade them otherwise and anyway why should I explain my medical history to total strangers.

Oh, the tales I could tell about my daughter.. 30, looking like a model, driving a big (mobility) car, and being terminally ill.

I worked as a GPO telephonist in London, My GP had told me my I had a problem with my hearing , but it explained why I only used one ear for work. I worked well, changed my job but still worked as a telephonist in the Board of trade. Got married and moved away transferred back to the GPO where I stayed until the birth of my DD. When I tried to get a job after having bother DDs I was pronounced 'deaf' and was unemployable by the GPO, though I had given good years of service.

This post shows why it is a good reason to be a member of a trade union. It gives individual workers the support to hold a business or organisation to account for decisions taken on promotion, salary and professional progression. I have never understood why some teachers don’t join a union for just this kind of thing. I had a conversation with a colleague not long ago, who insisted that he wouldn’t join a union because they were politically socialist, but who was very keen to ask the union rep for advice ‘as a friend’ when coronavirus hit.

I’m sure a union helps but if you have a chronic illness or disability you will get sidelined if you cannot do your job properly, most companies have targets or at least expectations of what you should do.
The HR department of a large company will have a set procedure, some tough some relaxed, small businesses are very hit and miss which causes lots of problems for both sides in any dispute.
Many businesses are having to reorganize at present and redundancies are happening, long term employees are compensated, it’s a sad reality many are unhappy at hard choices.

AIG cancelled my life insurance because their actuary tables said I’d be dead within 2 years. Almost 18 years on I’m still here.

I was in the NUT geekesse. But after a cancer battle, I wasn't up to another battle at work. It was hard enough getting back to work without taking that on. And to be honest, I didn't realise at first what was happening. It wasn't until another promotion was available and one of the schools managers and I were chatting amicably one day, that he started listing the possibilities, and I noticed I was no longer one of them.

I was otherwise wonderfully treated while I had cancer. Nothing was too much trouble. That in itself was rare enough.

The Disabled Discrimination Act covers health issues in the workplace. If the criteria is met employers have an obligation to accommodate employees with their difficulties whether physical or mental.

Errata Disability Discrimination Act.

I'm hard of hearing and wear bilateral hearing aids. I need sub titles on telly if I want to enjoy a programme.
I feel discriminated against every time a programme on basic TV is broadcast (usually the upper channels) without subs or an advert I might be interested in, comes on likewise. This is even true of products aimed at Seniors, many of whom have lost hearing capacity, like funeral plans, equity release, charities and meal deliveries to your door!

Similar story to you MissAdventure. Thankfully my daughter isn’t terminally ill, but after a childhood stroke she is a full time wheelchair user, looks like a model and drives a notability car with a blue badge.
When accosted one day about using a disabled space she snapped and asked the person if she thought the wheelchair in the back of her car was a ‘f**king fashion accessory’? I appreciate some disabled people don’t mind being asked what’s ‘wrong’ with them but would the same people ever challenge an obese person as to why they weigh so much?

I was discriminated against because I was healthy!

In one place of work I had to pitch in with office removals/heavy lift because the other two admin assistants had health issues - one a male with scoliosis (but attended a gym and was an amateur bodybuilder) and the other, female, because she had anorexia and was too slight to be of much use.

When I complained I was told to thank my blessings.....?‍♀️

I was discriminated in my teaching job when my deteriorating health became obvious.
I was doing the job of three people and I was flavour of the month with my boss.
As soon as I went off sick, he made my life awful.

What he hadn't realised that my husband had been a senior official in the HR dept of another local authority, who at the time I became ill, was working as an HR consultant for my own LA.
I asked for a meeting at headquarters and my husband accompanied me. When I arrived at the meeting and the people at HQ realised who my husband was, the proverbial s**t hit the fan. I had a profuse written apology for the way I had been discriminated against.

I had some money invested and it was being looked after by a small company. I am partially sighted so at a meeting with the manager some goon suggested I have somebody sit in because I obviously had lost any brain cells as well. I was furious- this person would have been anybody. All I need is large print- the brain is still functioning- maybe not 100% but it is working.

Not quite the same thing, but the bereaved husband of a friend of mine, from my breast cancer support group, was being discriminated against due to his need to go part-time / work from home after my friend/his wife's death (they had a small child).

His BiL was an employment lawyer. They used a USB stick recording device in his laptop, which he took into the room with him when he had a meeting with HR about his role. He left the laptop with the recorder in it in the room while he went to the 'bathroom'. With the info from the conversation about how they planned to force him out of the company that took place while he was gone, the BiL was able to get him a great deal.

He now works part time and from home. Which they really should have let him do anyway.