Dipply I will be interested to hear how your sister gets on. I was dismissed 3 weeks ago (they call it gross misconduct). I had been employed by this company (retail) for 10 and a half years. Not one day off sick, going to other stores to help out when asked to do so, struggling through days when my MS and RLS (restless leg Syndrome) was affecting me. Still I never called in sick. Had a welfare meeting once because I couldn't take public transport to work, and my car had broken down, and my partner was away on business with his. The RLScould be particularly severe when I took public transport. In short, this Welfare meeting was very aggressive and was basically an interrogation ( a fact which I commented on at the time and so is recorded in the notes of the meeting). I was in tears at that meeting. So I know that because of my MS and particularly the RLS they wanted rid of me. So when I forgot to put bags of banking back in the safe one night, even though the shop was closed at the time and then securely locked, they had their chance. I have now been sacked for Gross Misconduct, after my manageress reported the bags still on top of the safe the next morning, when I had a hospital procedure scheduled and an operation 3 days after that. In short, I had a lot on my mind. So now I have an appeal meeting tomorrow and I am very nervous. I cannot go back to the job, my relationship has totally deteriorated with the manageress, and I am now signing on for Jobseekers Allowance for the first time ever. And I have 'dismissed for gross misconduct' on my employment record. Who will employ me now? And all I did was to forget something. No money lost, or stolen. It was all there the next morning. It has been understood in that shop for a long time that the manageress had a problem with me, but no one could figure out why. I have worked alongside this woman for over ten years, so for her to do that to me was incomprehensible to me, I just would have put the money back in the safe and given the person who left it out a right good lecture But both her and Head Office, for their own reasons, have jumped on this chance to get rid of me. But I have proof that they have contravened the Disabilty Act (now known as the Equality Act), as regards both my MS and RLS (the Welfare meeting ) , and I am taking my Union Rep into the Appeal meeting tomorrow. I am so nervous, and just don't know what to expect. Dipply I sincerelyhope your sister gets the result that she wants.