ENIL is calling on everyone to help us provide every disabled person with acess to employment and income. Report to us information on promising practices of supported employment.
The right of disabled people to work in the open labour market is guaranteed in article 27 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilites on work and employment. Access to employment and income is part of the 18 Pillars on Independent Living.
Disabled people are still very frequently prevented from access to employment and income which can lead to poverty, homelessness and institutionalisation. ENIL is conducting an advocacy campaign to improve the situation. Only last week a new proposal for reform was sent to the European Commission.
According to Eurofound, the European Foundation on Living and Working Conditions supported employment refers to “a method of working with groups in disadvantaged situations to enable them to enter and maintain paid employment in the open labour market.”
Based on this definition, ENIL counts all support forms that aid in accessing or retaining work in the open labour market as supported employment.
For example:
– Personal assistance at work
– Job coaching
– Wage subsidies
– Job immersion programmes (specifically for disabled people)
– Customised employment (job carving)
– Job search assistance
– Assistance in communicating with potential employers
