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Decent work is for everyone –
including People with Disabilities
Christy Lynch
Marion Wilkinson
Comprehensive Employment
Strategy - Policy background
• Sectoral Plan 2006
• NDA paper – A Strategy of Engagement
• Work of interdepartmental group + consultative
forum on employment of pwd
• Transfer of functions
• National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan
– pwd have access to jobs
• Review of Adult Day Services – New Directions
UN Convention on Disability
Article 27
• Right to work, on an equal basis with others
• Effective access to vocational guidance,
placement, and training
• Promote employment through affirmative action
and other measures
• Provide reasonable accommodation at work
• Promote work experience in open labour market
Low participation in work
• People with disabilities are only half as likely to
have a job
• Strong link between education and employment
• Strong link between no job and poverty
• 60% of people with disabilities not working are
restricted in type or amount of work they can do
• But 15% of those who have difficulty working are
in a job
Employment rates 2011
aged 20 to 64
80%
66%
60%
43%
40%
33%
34%
32%
23%
20%
18%
17%
Physical
ID
23%
14%
0%
No disab
Pwd
Blind
Deaf
Learning
M Health
Ill
Difficulty
working
Vision - draft
• People with disabilities can get a job and
enjoy a rewarding career
Focus
• Lifecycle focus – from birth, through school,
into adult life.
• People with disability from birth + those
with acquired disabilities
Values 1• People with disabilities are enabled to have jobs,
earn a living and make a contribution
• People with disabilities are supported to
maximise their potential
• The focus is on a person’s capacity not their
incapacity
• The strategy covers people across the spectrum
of disability
Values 2 –
• It pays to have a job
• People with disabilities get the supports they
need to work
• Support systems that cross departmental or
agency boundaries are mutually coherent and
provide a joined-up system and joined-up
pathways
• Actions in this Strategy are built into the
mainstream national employment strategy
Draft strategic priorities
• SP1 Build skills, capacity and independence
• SP2 Provide bridges and supports into work
• SP3 Make work pay
• SP4 Promote job retention and re-entry to work
• SP5 Provide co-ordinated and seamless support
• SP6 Engage employers
ICTU - Specific actions
• Suggestions from today,
– Top priorities under the which strategic priority?
• What is the role that trade unions can play?
• Specific actions under the return to work/ job
retention priority?
• Recruitment of people with disabilities in the
public service – post embargo? ideas