This page has useful information for employees and employers on working with epilepsy.
The Equality Act protects people from several different types of disability discrimination, in terms of employment. Volunteer (unpaid) work is not usually covered by the Equality Act 2010.
As for anybody, the type of work you can do depends on your skills, qualifications, and experience. It may also depend on how your epilepsy affects you.
One of the key points to remember about epilepsy is that it varies from person to person. While some people have regular seizures, up to 70% (7 in 10) of people with epilepsy could stop having seizures (with the right medication) so their epilepsy may have little or no effect on their work.
When employing someone with epilepsy, it is important to consider their individual situation, and base any decisions on fact. This means looking at their epilepsy and the effect it might have on their work.
Talking to them about what their epilepsy is really like, and how it might affect their work, is more helpful than making assumptions about how it affects them.
See below for the contact information of support organisations.
Epilepsy Society is grateful to Emily Peoples, HR Business Partner, Epilepsy Society, who reviewed this information.
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