Decline in energy and ability

[Lounge Lizard]

Many of us with long service, out on delivery daily for more than five hours and aged over fifty will be suffering a decline in both energy and ability to do the job such that continued working for Royal Mail might no longer be possible.
There is a 2009 agreement “on managing employees with long term ill health” that covers “retirement on ill health grounds with immediate pension [or] lump sum payment …… as a result of serious physical or mental ill health, not simply a decline in energy or ability”.
A decline in energy and ability to the extent that we can no longer walk for five hours a day is a direct result of the job and is as “serious” as any other instance of “ill health”, so how can a work induced “decline in energy and ability” legitimately be excluded from the agreement, and what action might anyone in that situation best take?

[rehabron]

Many of us with long service, out on delivery daily for more than five hours and aged over fifty will be suffering a decline in both energy and ability to do the job such that continued working for Royal Mail might no longer be possible.
There is a 2009 agreement “on managing employees with long term ill health” that covers “retirement on ill health grounds with immediate pension [or] lump sum payment …… as a result of serious physical or mental ill health, not simply a decline in energy or ability”.
A decline in energy and ability to the extent that we can no longer walk for five hours a day is a direct result of the job and is as “serious” as any other instance of “ill health”, so how can a work induced “decline in energy and ability” legitimately be excluded from the agreement, and what action might anyone in that situation best take?

the 2009 agreement on long term health could be up for a challenge from the Equality Act 2010 when thoroughly searched by a solicitor.

[rubberbond]

The Union should be challenging this,it should be right up their street, although that particular street is probably part of the lapsing plan.