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What rights does a worker have to vocational rehabilitation?
 
Answer:
Section 319 of the Act provides that a worker has a right to vocational rehabilitation benefits. Vocational rehabilitation can include a whole variety of things. It might simply mean that the employer makes some minor change in the worker's job station so that he or she can return to the work in spite of some continuing problem. It might mean that an outside rehabilitation counselor will work with the employer and the employee to aid in a return to work at the same job or a similar job with the same employer.

 

It might mean that a vocational rehabilitation agency, either a state agency or private agency, will help the worker find a job with some other employer.

 

It might involve short-term training to help the worker find a new job, or in some unusual circumstances, long-term re-education. In the appropriate circumstance an employer can be required to provide up to two years of vocational rehabilitation services.

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