What are my rights to rehabilitation during sick leave?
You have the right to rehabilitation and the employer has the ultimate responsibility for this.
This is how the process should work:
- The employer should call a meeting as soon as possible to identify your rehabilitation needs.
- The focus should be on measures that will enable you to return to work.
- This should result in an investigation and an action plan that is documented in writing. A number of meetings may be needed to establish a rehabilitation plan.
- The employer is obliged to adapt the workplace to facilitate the rehabilitation and must also pay for occupational health care or other expertise if necessary.
Support at the meetings
To get support at these meetings with the employer, it may be helpful for you to have the safety representative at the workplace. Before the meeting, you can tell the employer that you want to bring the safety representative and ask the employer to contact the safety representative, or give you the contact details so that you can make contact yourself.
If there is no safety representative at the workplace or you do not want to bring the safety representative, you have the right to bring a person of your choice, such as a friend, to support you.