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Hi Jackie

It isn't appropriate or fair to issue someone with a warning for something which is beyond their control and which they cannot improve, which is therefore a capability issue, so this comes down to whether you have good reason to believe the employee…

I think the issue that troubles Carol is as Keith pointed out at the top of the thread: would it be a reasonable adjustment for someone with a disability to take him out of the process, continue paying him but charge him to another site? That seems problematic…

I am suggesting you hold back on making any judgments until you become better informed. You don't know whether the mistakes caused by misunderstanding and the problems caused by lack of dexterity have anything to do with his autism. You need to find out…

Hi Jo

You should refer him to an Occupational Health service. Send them his job description, explain the parts of the job that he is struggling with and ask them whether this is likely to be related to his autism, how his autism will affect him in the…

Just an aside, but it really rubs me up the wrong way as an older person to be talked about as if I am somehow different, as it there is this separate group off over in a corner who are "aging" and who will be differently affected by normal work processes…