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Levelling-up: mental health and work
RUTH HUNT talks to those who have been kept out of the workplace through discrimination over their mental health

CONSERVATIVES at Walsall Council have objected to Sean Coughlan, a Labour councillor who has been open about his mental health problems, taking up the post of deputy mayor.

The decision was called “democratic” but the reason given for blocking his appointment was his past struggles with mental health — a decision Coughlan described as “archaic.”

This news story shines a light on the unfair treatment many employees with a mental health diagnosis face, despite the Equality Act (2010).

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