Vocational rehabilitation benefits all

Vocational rehabilitation is support provided by an employee pension institution for employees who can no longer continue in their present job for reasons of health and need a change of job or profession. The aim is to enable employees to stay on at work or to come back to work despite illness.

The need for vocational rehabilitation should be recognized at workplaces as early as possible and rehabilitation begun before the employee has to take sick leave. The responsibility for identifying this need and starting the rehabilitation belongs, in addition to the employees themselves, to the occupational health care service, the attendant physician or the employee’s superior. In most cases, measures taken by the workplaces themselves are sufficient for finding employees the right type of work and tailoring it to their needs.

An employer benefits from vocational rehabilitation financially through lower pension costs, fewer leaves of absence and maybe by a fall in the number of new recruits, while a rehabilitated, better motivated and up-skilled employee is more likely to stay on at work longer despite his or her illness. The vocational skills of the employee improve as does his or her earning potential and quality of life.

Contact information:

Advance advice, telephone 010 284 11