Hi,
if you are disabled and therefore require the use of lifts in order to gain access to the different levels of floors in a building, is it classed as discrimination if access to these lifts are heavily restricted due to the over use, incompetence, laziness of other people and time waiting for you to gain access to them?
I suffer with cerebral palsy, and for a long time now I have been subjected to over using the stairs to my physical ability ( I shouldn't even use stairs!), the lifts are by far too busy with the use of hundreds of people, I can never get clear access to them when needed, and even when clearly visible people ignore you and try to get in the lifts themselves I am also left waiting in pain before all the able bodied persons are catered for, before me who needs the lift can use them. And at the same time nothing is being done in place to make it all the better, it is just a problem which just spans out and escalates.
Is all this therefore classed as discrimination? And if so who is therefore liable/responsible for getting this put right.
Also what is the differences with rights. in regards to a disabled person (who needs lifts) compared to what an able bodied person may who may call it their human rights in which to use the lifts.
is it a human right to use lifts (when able bodied) or just a luxury.
Thanks
if you are disabled and therefore require the use of lifts in order to gain access to the different levels of floors in a building, is it classed as discrimination if access to these lifts are heavily restricted due to the over use, incompetence, laziness of other people and time waiting for you to gain access to them?
I suffer with cerebral palsy, and for a long time now I have been subjected to over using the stairs to my physical ability ( I shouldn't even use stairs!), the lifts are by far too busy with the use of hundreds of people, I can never get clear access to them when needed, and even when clearly visible people ignore you and try to get in the lifts themselves I am also left waiting in pain before all the able bodied persons are catered for, before me who needs the lift can use them. And at the same time nothing is being done in place to make it all the better, it is just a problem which just spans out and escalates.
Is all this therefore classed as discrimination? And if so who is therefore liable/responsible for getting this put right.
Also what is the differences with rights. in regards to a disabled person (who needs lifts) compared to what an able bodied person may who may call it their human rights in which to use the lifts.
is it a human right to use lifts (when able bodied) or just a luxury.
Thanks