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@Graham_Phillips_1 

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Graham_Phillips_1

Declaring MS with new employer

I have had a new job offer and I am filling in the relevant documents including medical. It is personal to everyone but in your opinion, would you answer Yes to 'do you consider yourself to have a disability'? I have RRMS so a 'disability' is not obvious at this moment. Or have you told your new employer that you have MS after signing the contract and on the day you start? I don't know what is best. Thank you
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@Lilypalooza
@Lilypalooza
 

@graham_phillips_1 I'm in a similar boat, also have RRMS and currently job hunting. Only recently diagnosed so not sure if I should be making them aware of it or not...as you say a 'disability' isn't exactly visible at the moment! Hopefully some lovely person on here will have some good advice for us.

@chloec
@chloec
 

I'm not quite in the same position so I'm not sure if this will help you both but I have told my employer. More by accident then by an actual thought process. She was there when I got my garbled confirmation over the phone and I kinda fell apart. I don't think you have to declare it, but you might want it to be part of the conversation when talking about sick pay etc. I was lucky and another person in my workplace has ms and has had it for years so my employer does have a vague understanding of the condition. As I said I'm not sure if this has actually helped, but hopefully in a small way it has.