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Closed Automatic right to remote working for those with ASD or mental health issues

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I want the Government to make it a legal requirement for employers to allow full remote working for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and those with any other mental health difficulties.

Autism is a disability and reasonable adjustments must be made to enable disabled people to work, not to disadvantage people who have specific difficulties with socialising in person, crowds and a whole myriad of issues that can be near impossible to overcome in the work place, maybe why such low levels employment. We should be legally guaranteed the right to remote working, so we can be productive members of society, people not living in relative poverty, for our self-esteem.

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    Autism employment debated by MPs

    On Thursday 25 April, MPs debated the Buckland Review of Autism Employment.

    The debate was led by Sir Robert Buckland MP, who conducted the review.

    The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Mims Davies MP, responded on behalf of the Government.

    The debate was scheduled by the Backbench Business Committee.

    What are backbench business debates?

    Backbench business debates give backbenchers (MPs who aren’t ministers or shadow ministers) an opportunity to secure a debate on a topic of their choice, either in the House of Commons Chamber or Westminster Hall.

    MPs can make a request for a debate to the Backbench Business Committee, which decides which debates to schedule.

    This debate was on a motion calling on the Government, businesses and the wider economy to accept and implement the recommendations of the Buckland Review. This was agreed to.

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