Employment Retention Bill introduced
John Robertson (Lab, Glasgow North West) has introduced a ten minute rule Bill on employment retention requiring that an assessment be made to determine whether a disabled person can be supported in the workplace or in more serious cases allowed a period of leave.
Mr Robertson moved that the Bill should 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.
He argued that by creating an assessment requirement, the Bill ensures that people who develop a disability while employed, or whose existing disability deteriorates, are supported to remain in employment, if practicable. The Bill’s second reading is on March 14 2008.
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