Yeah @DaveL, I know at certain companies, discrimination against the deaf/HOH workers is commonplace, and if you work for such a company, you might want to hide the fact that you have a hearing loss! I have been very fortunate not to experience this, we have laws in the UK to proactively discourage unscrupulous employers, my employer is a government run council workforce, (our area demographics, the size of Belgium) we have several thousand employees, and any form of discrimination is actively rooted out, we have a grievance procedure that must be adhered too, investigated & answered within 28 days! I can only say my employer has been wonderfully supportive of my hearing loss! I personally was on first name terms, with all department heads, I was a well known, and hopefully respected Union Representative, 10 hours per week were allotted into my working week for union duties alone, and sometimes much more if I was particularly busy, as I also doubled up with the “Joint Union’s negotiation team”…… Suffice to say, I took no sh1t from any management whatsoever, and I had many shouting matches with departmental heads, so much so, I had to occasionally email an apology for perhaps going OTT in an official meeting! My duty as I saw it, was to get the best deal possible for our workforce, and management were always trying to cut corners, to the detriment of the workforce…. Not on my watch, I was a stickler for employment law, and previously signed agreement’s…. Either join the Union (if you have one?) or raise an action/litigation against the offending employer on the grounds of disability discrimination…. Good Luck, cheers Kev 
