Code of Practice
on Managing Disability in the Workplace
A practical guide
for use by all partners
Employers are playing a more central role than ever before in promoting opportunities for job seekers with disabilities,
in retaining workers who acquire a disability while in employment and developing return-to-work-strategies for those who
have left the active labour force.
In support of these trends, the ILO has developed a Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace, to provide guidance to public and private sector employers in the first instance, and also to employers’ organizations, workers’ organizations and national authorities on the following topics:
- recruitment of disabled persons
- promotion and advancement of workers with disabilities
- retention of people who acquire a disability
- return to work of people who have left employment due to disability.
The Code of Practice draws on the experience in disability management of countries throughout the world, gathered through research.
The code, which was adopted by a Tripartite Meeting of Experts in Geneva,
October 2001, complements the existing ILO guidelines regarding the training and employment of people with disabilities: ILO Convention No. 159 and Recommendation No. 168 concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) of 1983; and Recommendation No. 99 concerning Vocational Rehabilitation of the Disabled (1955).
The ILO Code of Practise on Managing Disability in the
Workplace has been welcomed by the first International Forum on Disability
Management "Work Retention Strategies in a Global Society" (27-29
May 2002) organised by National
Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR, Canada).
For more information, contact:
Barbara Murray, murrayb@ilo.org
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