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Riga, April 14-17, 2009
INCREASING EMPLOYABILITY OF DISABLED PEOPLE
Workshop 1
Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers
Prof. Marga Živitere,
Doc. Aija Laura Živitere
Information Systems Management Institute
INEMDIP Tasks & ISMA Activities
Activities since last IPM
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ISMA on Work Packages
Recruitment Strategies/ Contact with Potential Organisations
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Reports from
– The Latvian Umbrella Body for Disability Organisations (SUSTENTO);
– Employers’ Confederation of Latvia (LDDK);
– Colleagues from University of Medicine on European Projects about Disability
and Work Issues;
– Latvia Employment Agency; and from
– Latvia Social Welfare Ministry
Potential Challenges
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Incorporating into the INEMDIP Course Module New Research on Disability
and Work (e.g., OECD Reports on Sickness, Disability and Work in Norway,
Poland, Switzerland, Australia, Luxembourg, Spain, the United Kingdom,
Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands)
– ISMA Appendices to Course Module or Case Studies within the text on
Luxembourg, the UK (Updating AnDE)
– ISMA Appendices to Course Module or Case Studies within the text on Latvia
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INEMDIP Tasks & ISMA Activities I
Activities since last IPM
• ISMA on Work Packages and the Valorisation Plan
– Work package 1: Management
– Work package 5: Analysis of Strategy
• Organization of a workshop in Latvia to analyse and evaluate the
collected materials, distribution of chapters to each partner for
preparation of the draft material;
• Work out the modules “The possibilities of employers to cooperate
with educational, governmental institutions, employment agencies and
social organizations” and “The development of appropriate conditions
in the work place for people with disabilities
• Compiling the learning material “Increasing employability of Disabled
People”
• Work out of the content of the learning material, Study Guide and the
Tutor’s notes
• Translation of the materials into Turkish, Latvian, and Bulgarian
languages
– The Valorisation Plan
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INEMDIP Tasks & ISMA Activities II
Recruitment Strategies/ Contact with
Potential Organisations
• Reports from
– The Latvian Umbrella Body for Disability
Organisations (SUSTENTO);
– Employers’ Confederation of Latvia (LDDK);
– Colleagues from University of Medicine on European
Projects about Disability and Work Issues;
– Latvia Employment Agency; and from
– Latvia Social Welfare Ministry
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INEMDIP Tasks & ISMA Activities III
Potential Challenges
• Incorporating into the INEMDIP Course Module
New Research on Disability and Work (e.g.,
OECD Reports on Sickness, Disability and Work
in Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Australia,
Luxembourg, Spain, the United Kingdom,
Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands)
– ISMA Appendices to Course Module or Case Studies
within the text on Luxembourg, the UK (Updating
AnDE)
– ISMA Appendices to Course Module or Case Studies
within the text on Latvia
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ISMA Updates: Case Studies
Disability: Definitions and Measurement
Disability nowadays is apprehended as a multi-dimensional and a
dynamic phenomenon, going beyond physical impairments and
including societal factors as well as changes over time
Two issues need to be disentangled:
– the different definitional approaches on the one hand and
– issues of measurement methods and instruments on the other.
Two definitions:
– Disability can be defined as a self-assessed status or else as a
legal status based on administrative sources, e.g. benefit
receipt.
Measurement methods and instruments
– Self-assessed disability status is measured via household
surveys.
– Benefit recipient status can be measured through administrative
records or else through surveys
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ISMA Updates: Case Study Luxembourg 1
(Materials A)
• The current situation
• Key policy recommendations
– Make responsibilities and incentives
stronger for employers
– Strengthen responsibilities and incentives
for workers
– Improve rehabilitation and placement
efforts
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ISMA Updates: Case Study Luxembourg 2
(Materials A)
• Key policy recommendations for employers
– Raise financial incentives for employers to prevent
sickness
– Strengthen internal redeployment.
• tighten rules for approved non-compliance and extend the
redeployment obligation to workers ending a temporary
disability benefit claim;
• involve employers in the rehabilitation and retraining of their
sick or disabled employees; and
• speed up the process to avoid unnecessary loss of skills,
work motivation and, in particular, jobs before the procedure
starts
– Disassociate internal redeployment from the
employment quota
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ISMA Updates: Case Study Luxembourg 3
(Materials A)
• Key policy recommendations for workers
– Improve work incentives for people with disability not
in work. High disability benefits help to reduce poverty
rates but pose obstacles in bringing people with
disability back to work.
– Strengthen job-search requirements.
– Re-evaluate work capacity of people who are
internally redeployed with a wage compensation.
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ISMA Updates: Case Study Luxembourg 4
(Materials A)
• Key policy recommendations how to improve
rehabilitation and placement efforts
– Research the reasons for the failure of the
redeployment process
– Put more emphasis on vocational rehabilitation and
training.
– Develop a rigorous evaluation strategy.
– Increase the flexibility of the system.
– Strengthen the work capacity focus of the procedure.
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ISMA Updates: Case Study UK 1
(Materials B)
• The current situation
• Key policy recommendations
– Accelerate the identification of health problems
– Address the circumstances of unemployed and
inactive people
– Raise the number of people helped by work
integration programmes
– Benefit reform to improve work incentives and
increase incomes
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ISMA Updates: Case Study UK 2
(Materials B)
• Key policy recommendations for employers in
order to Accelerate the Identification of Health
Problems
– Intensify employer responsibilities and
support.
– Strengthen early medical controls of workers’
health status.
– Advance eligibility assessment for a disability
benefit.
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ISMA Updates: Case Study UK 3
(Materials B)
• Key policy recommendations in order to
Address the Circumstances of Unemployed
and Inactive People
– Improve absence monitoring of the nonemployed.
– Address the group of people moving between
unemployment and disability.
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ISMA Updates: Case Study UK 3
(Materials B)
Key policy recommendations in order to Raise the
Number of People Helped by Work Integration
Programmes
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Foster employment service delivery.
Underpin the new conditionality approach.
Further improve the condition management programmes (CMP).
Strengthen the focus on sustainable employment outcomes.
Further refine funding rates by:
 reducing the payment rate for very short work hours (permitted
work);
 changing the definition of sustained employment from 13 to at least
26 weeks and adding a component for long-term sustained
employment; and
 including a reward for continued provision of in-work support leading
to higher earnings (career component).
• Ensure that more disadvantaged people have access to services.
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ISMA Updates: Case Study UK 4
(Materials B)
• Key policy recommendations for the forthcoming Benefit
Reform in order to Improve Work Incentives and
Increase Incomes
– Increase incentives for beneficiaries to seek work.
– Raise the impact of in-work payments.
Raise the take-up of the Working Tax Credit by informing clients about
the impact on their future earnings as systematically and early as
possible. Consider extending the income range at which this permanent
in-work benefit is paid.
– Improve incomes of people with disability.
Reconsider the level of existing cost-of-disability benefits, such as the
Disability Living Allowance, to ensure that these benefits cover the
actual additional costs of a person with a disability. Better private
disability insurance coverage, ideally with case-managed insurance
contracts, would contribute to higher incomes of people no longer able
to work.
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Riga, April 14-17, 2009
INCREASING EMPLOYABILITY OF DISABLED PEOPLE
Workshop 1
Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers
Prof. Marga Živitere,
Doc. Aija Laura Živitere
Information Systems Management Institute