{"id":764,"date":"2019-03-05T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/?p=764"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:34:18","slug":"employers-and-the-equality-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Employers and the Equality act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employers should not refuse a person with epilepsy a job because of their condition without having a very good reason. But jobs in the Armed Forces are not covered by the Equality Act 2010. This means you can be refused a job in the Armed Forces if you are diagnosed with epilepsy. There is more information about work and your rights on the Epilepsy Action website.<br \/>\nThe Ipswich Epilepsy Support Group have free leaflets about people working with epilepsy if you would like one please phone our helpline on 01473461407.<br \/>\nSource Epilepsy Action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers should not refuse a person with epilepsy a job because of their condition without having a very good reason. But jobs in the Armed Forces are not covered by the Equality Act 2010. This means you can be refused a job in the Armed Forces if you are diagnosed with epilepsy. There is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichepilepsy.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}