Friday, 13 August 2010

Dering, To take court action for unpaid fees.



LEGAL ACTION: Stephen Dering blames the Shaw Trust charity for his company having to enter administration. A SPECIALIST recruitment agency for deaf people is to take legal action against a leading charity for "suffocating" the company into administration.

Dering Employment Services, which has helped thousands of deaf or hard of hearing people find and retain work, claims it is owed £100,000 by the Shaw Trust. Stephen Dering, 33, chief executive of the firm based in Park Lane, Croydon, accuses the charity of being responsible for "90 per cent" of his company's financial woes.

He said that due to the specialist expertise of his company, it was subcontracted by the Shaw Trust to deliver services other companies cannot. Mr Dering said: "Shaw Trust has not paid up for service fees, job outcomes and sustained outcomes for several months.

"Some fees date back over a year." Shaw Trust is the UK's largest provider of employment services for disabled people and a Government-backed charity. It should have paid Dering a monthly service fee, whenever someone who used the company found work and if they kept that job for six months or more.



Mr Dering claims that, on numerous occasions, Shaw Trust failed to pay these fees.

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4 comments:

  1. The Shaw Trust, I should have known.

    Nothing but a bunch of parasites who think that disabled people were put on this planet to make them rich.

    Good luck, Dering, fight for every penny.
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  2. It's a moot issue regarding supporting unemployed to get work, and exposes the idea of only paying those who help disabled to get work by results employers laugh at. It ignores employer opposition to disabled, and anti-ageism laws that insist we work till 68 ignoring the fact employers won't employ people over 50. No-one is addressing the realities.

    There is the inequality with deaf and disabled that gives no credence to the facts employers do not want disabled at all, and then punishing those who work for the disabled/deaf by making them bankrupt because of that, instead of addressing wholesale anti-disabled employer stances and virtually no support either.

    It stands to reason IF disabled are forced via these new laws to take whatever they are told to take regardless, then the chances of deaf doing that job effectively or sticking with it is negligible, and still ignores employer resistence. Given 90% of work is part-time anyway, what is the real point of a payment by result time-scale employers won't comply with or deaf can't stay with because the job is unsuitable ? 6 out of 10 are simply not offered a job at all.

    Deaf cannot do as hearing regardless what some imply, and not without the support in place, which employers don't pay for, and the state may withdraw soon after employment commences. The state said support would be paid for and in place for years, yet the average job lasts months..

    It's the old UK story of vilifying the vulnerable as lazy, fraudulent and worse, then when they withdraw support services no-one complains, it is a disgraceful British attitude and you wonder what the hell is the DDA for, show ?
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  3. The fault lies not at the Shaw Trust for which Dering failed to diversify his funding sources.
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  4. This explains why after I've e-mailed people from Dering to help me find work at least twice, and attempted a phone call to HQ, I've yet to hear anything from them at all. The Job Centre Plus is still handing out Dering flyers and asking Deaf people like myself who are looking for a job, to get in touch with them.
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