Leading Mental Health Charity Launches Project to Fight Mental Health Discrimination
On December 15, 2008, Mind, a prominent British mental health charity, launched “Time to Challenge,” a legal project that will focus on eliminating disability discrimination in employment as well as several other key areas, such as insurance coverage and government services. While Mind will take on cases that go beyond discrimination, it will also seek to eliminate mental health discrimination in the workplace, where an employee has been subjected to discriminatory termination or constructive discharge.
While mental health disability is covered under the New York City Human Rights law, one interesting aspect of the British legal project is its focus on discrimination perpetrated against someone associated with a disabled person. This focus on discrimination against those associated with people in a protected class under the law may offer another much needed source of protection from employment discrimination.
