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 Stateallow 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 arrangementspreserve, 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.
House of Commons
20 October 2009
The bill would create a legal right for certain disabled workers to have an Employment Retention Assessment (ERA) by a health professional approved by the government to decide if they are eligible for rehabilitation leave. If eligible, workers can take rehabilitation leave to recover, retrain, or give employers time to adjust their job, while their terms and conditions are preserved and they have a right to return to work afterwards.
The bill is currently at the 2nd reading in the House of Commons, indicating it is in the early stages of parliamentary consideration.
Generated 21 February 2026
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.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
