Employment Retention Bill

A Bill to make provision for a statutory right to an employment retention assessment to determine entitlement to a period of rehabilitation leave for newly disabled people and people whose existing impairments change; and for connected purposes.

The Bill would:

• entitle a disabled employee who satisfies specified conditions to an employment retention assessment carried out by a health care professional approved by the Secretary of State
• allow employees who have been assessed and found eligible for the rights created by the Bill to be absent from work on 'rehabilitation leave' for the purposes of rehabilitation, re-training, or to allow the employer time to make reasonable adjustments to working conditions and arrangements
• preserve, insofar as this is appropriate or possible, the employee’s terms and conditions of employment during rehabilitation leave and give the employee a right to return to work.