Disability discrimination | Deaf man seeking work awarded £50k after years of mistreatment by Jobcentre officials

Deaf man seeking work awarded £50k after years of mistreatment by Jobcentre officials

A deaf man has been awarded nearly £50,000 by an employment tribunal after suffering years of mistreatment by Jobcentre officials.

Paul Rimmer is profoundly deaf and his first language is British Sign Language (BSL). He has no spoken English and only very basic reading and writing ability. A tribunal heard that he 

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