{"longTitle":"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.","summary":"<p>The Bill would:</p><ul><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>preserve, insofar as this is appropriate or possible, the employee&rsquo;s terms and conditions of employment during rehabilitation leave and give the employee a right to return to work.</li></ul>","sponsors":[{"member":{"memberId":605,"name":"John Robertson","party":"Labour","partyColour":"d50000","house":"Commons","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/605/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/605/contact","memberFrom":"Glasgow North West"},"organisation":null,"sortOrder":1}],"promoters":[],"petitioningPeriod":null,"petitionInformation":null,"agent":null,"billId":452,"shortTitle":"Employment Retention Bill","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Commons","originatingHouse":"Commons","lastUpdate":"2009-10-20T14:32:07","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":5,"introducedSessionId":22,"includedSessionIds":[22],"isAct":false,"currentStage":{"id":13324,"stageId":7,"sessionId":22,"description":"2nd reading","abbreviation":"2R","house":"Commons","stageSittings":[],"sortOrder":2}}