What's new
2020
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Event
Gender Equality, Disability Awareness and Theory of Change Workshops
Mainstreaming gender equality and disability awareness into the design and delivery of ILO’s component of the PROSPECTS Partnership
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News
China’s Global Business and Disability Network ready to establish its first Inclusive Employment Resource Centre
25 March 2020
The 20 enterprise members of the ILO GBDN-China have decided to establish the first inclusive employment resource center to promote the employment of persons with disabilities and mitigate the impact on persons with disabilities by COVID-19.
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Webinar
Disability Inclusion in COVID-19 responses in the World of Work
18 March 2020
Facilitated by the ILO Global Business and Disability Network, all interested stakeholders, including governments, workers' and employers' organisations as well as organisations of persons with disabilities participated in a webinar to share good practices on the inclusion of people with disabilities in the COVID-19 responses related to the World of Work.
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News
Workshop on the development of an Employment Injury Scheme in Pakistan.
10 March 2020
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Rural employment
ILO Local Employment Partnership creates new jobs for youth in Southern Moldova
05 March 2020
The Local Employment Partnership (LEP) implemented by ILO reached out to 600 young NEETs (youth neither in employment, education or training) in the Cahul region. 282 of them already registered as unemployed to benefit from active labour market measures. To date, this partnership created 135 jobs, 20 start-ups and 2 cooperatives—additional small businesses and jobs are in the pipeline in this rural region where the rate of inactive youth is the highest in Moldova (25%).
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© Mohamed Abd El Ghany / REUTERS 2020
Blog
Hard data needed on disability and work
19 February 2020
"The ILO is committed to drive the discussion on disability inclusion. Measuring and monitoring progress will be vital if we are to go beyond words," says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.
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© Mohamed Abd El Ghany / REUTERS 2020
World Economic Forum
Getting people with disabilities into work requires data
18 February 2020
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Video
Webinar: Filling the skills gap in the public sector: talent with disabilities
13 February 2020
The public sector is facing rapid changes – from shifts in the organization of work to new technologies making their way into public entities. Targeted initiatives by public employers can create and maintain a pipeline of persons with disabilities who develop new and improve existing skills to make the public sector work for all. Employment of persons with disabilities in the public service not only changes their place in society, the way society perceives persons with disabilities but also the ways people interact with the public sector. Speakers were Yazmine Laroche, Deputy Minister, Public Service Accessibility, Government of Canada; Victor Calise, Commissioner, Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, New York City; Martha Jackson, Assistant Commissioner Employment and Business Relations, Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, New York City.
2019
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Volume 2
Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities: Quota Schemes (Vol. 2)
23 December 2019
Employment quotas represent one of the most frequently used policy measures to promote work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Slightly over 100 countries around the world currently provide for employment quotas in their national legislation. While some countries have had employment quotas for many decades, others have introduced them recently, revised them or are planning to introduce them. There is no standard approach. Quotas vary from country to country in terms of the level of the percentage obligation, the size of company covered, whether they apply to public and private sector employers, how compliance is monitored and what measures apply in the case of non-compliance.
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Volume 1
Promoting Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities: Quota Schemes (Vol. 1)
23 December 2019
Employment quotas represent one of the most frequently used policy measures to promote work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Slightly over 100 countries around the world currently provide for employment quotas in their national legislation. While some countries have had employment quotas for many decades, others have introduced them recently, revised them or are planning to introduce them. There is no standard approach. Quotas vary from country to country in terms of the level of the percentage obligation, the size of company covered, whether they apply to public and private sector employers, how compliance is monitored and what measures apply in the case of non-compliance.