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Employment Retention Bill 2008-09

Type of Bill:
Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule, SO No 23)
Sponsor:
John Robertson

Progress of the Bill

Bill started in the House of Commons

  1. House of Commons
    1. 1st reading
    2. 2nd reading
    3. Committee stage
    4. Report stage
    5. 3rd reading
  2. House of Lords
    1. 1st reading
    2. 2nd reading
    3. Committee stage
    4. Report stage
    5. 3rd reading
  3. Consideration of Amendments
  4. Royal Assent

Last event

Latest Bill

House Bill Date
Commons Bill as introduced | PDF version, 79KB 03.04.2009

Latest news on the Bill

This Bill was presented to Parliament on 3 March. This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.

This Bill was on the Order Paper for a Second Reading on several Fridays before being dropped by its sponsor, John Robertson.

 

Summary of the Bill

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.

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