Blind teen with guide dog told to leave Leeds Subway shop – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6233rv397yo.amp
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Blind teen with guide dog told to leave Leeds Subway shop – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6233rv397yo.amp
Posted by Fox_9810
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Manager must be brain dead. It’s not a surprise that guide dogs exist, they’re not a new thing.
I feel for the young lad, but in many ways he dodged a 6 inch bullet. Fuck that subway and get a nicer lunch instead
The issue is a bunch of people claim their dog is a ‘service’ dog when there is no regulation around it (Karen with her emotional support chiwawa). Companies fear falling foul of equality regulations but also understandably don’t want dogs in food areas for hygiene reasons and because some customers are allergic. It means guide dogs which are highly trained unlike many ‘service’ dogs get barred from places they legally should be allowed.
>a spokesperson told him that staff at the branch were being retrained.
Breaching equality laws should be gross misconduct.
They need to introduce a type of blue badge scheme otherwise people are just buying harnesses and self-declaring a need, which undermines respect for any scheme.