Abstract
This report is a synthesis of findings and viewstrends carried out for an ILO-CEET organised technical workshop held in Budapest in October 1993 and used for preparation of the ILO-CEET Manual on Policies for Workers with Disabilities, which was presented at the workshop in draft and in a conference organised with the ILO`s Vocational Rehabilitation Branch in Poznan in February 1994. The manual was produced in Bulgarian, Czech, English, Hungarian, Polish and Russian.
The authors come to the conclusion that the unemployment rate of the disabled and their share of all unemployed job seekers have risen sharply in recent years. Due to recession and restructuring of the economic system competition in labour market has become more fierce. People with impairments have been more widely displaced. However, inability to compete explains only part of the worsening of employment figures of the disabled. There is also a statistical bias involved. Most probably the total number of disabled workers has increased more in statistics than in reality. A disabled person in statistics is a person with disability status granted by some medical authority. As a result of the introduction of new regulations to improve the standard of living of the disabled more people are keen to become classified as disabled. Consequently, more people who were earlier registered as normal employees, job seekers or unemployed job seekers are now registered as disabled.
The report shows that various measures have been taken to improve working opportunities of those with disabilities both in the mainstream labour market and in special enterprises. New training facilities have been opened as well as support organisations to develop training methods. Employment services have been established with new obligations such as selecting suitable jobs for the disabled and ensuring that employers supply information needed to identify suitable candidates. And many financial incentives have been created to make employers more willing to hire disabled workers.
Despite these improvements, the situation for workers with disabilities remains a precarious one, and in the context of high overall unemployment, much more should be done to ensure that they are not marginalised.
Table of Contents
Preface
l. Definitions of Disability and Their Impact on Employment Figures
2. Labour Legislation and Its Implementation
3. Disabled People's Unions and Associations
4. Concluding Remarks
|
 |
|
| The ILO Budapest Newsletter |
|
|
| Events & campaigns |
On the occasion of the 8th European Regional Meeting, the ILO is launching the Albanian, Romanian, Serbian and Ukrainian versions of the Decent Work Flash
|
|
