New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail
12 years, 2 months ago

New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail

Dutch News  

Government plans to make companies employ a quota of disabled people, while cutting spending on reintegration projects, is a dangerous and paradoxical mix, write Nelleke Cools and Kees Cools. In future at least 5% of every company’s workforce will have to be made up of disabled people. Organisations which have never worked with disabled people before will look to their own employees to see ‘who fits the Wajong bill already’ in order to fill the quota. But if it is coupled to a support system companies are quite willing to employ people with a disability.’ That brings us to the second problem this law poses: not only is it forced on companies, it also fails to provide the necessary funding.

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Participation law failed the disabled, MPs want return to sheltered workplaces
4 years, 1 month ago

Participation law failed the disabled, MPs want return to sheltered workplaces

Dutch News  

The law aimed at helping people with a mental or physical disability get a regular job has largely failed and a majority of MPs have now voted in favour of a return to sheltered work projects. Sheltered work projects for the disabled were phased out from 2015 when the so-called participation law came into effect. However, an evaluation by the …

Participation law failed the disabled, MPs want return to sheltered workplaces
4 years, 1 month ago

Participation law failed the disabled, MPs want return to sheltered workplaces

Dutch News  

The law aimed at helping people with a mental or physical disability get a regular job has largely failed and a majority of MPs have now voted in favour of a return to sheltered work projects. Sheltered work projects for the disabled were phased out from 2015 when the so-called participation law came into effect. However, an evaluation by the …

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention
5 years, 3 months ago

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention

Dutch News  

People with disabilities and the chronically ill are poorer, and still finding it difficult to access care, support and special education despite the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the Netherlands in 2016. The report states that legislation introduced in 2015 under which employers were given a bonus to employ disabled people has …

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention
5 years, 3 months ago

Dutch government is violating rights of disabled under UN convention

Dutch News  

People with disabilities and the chronically ill are poorer, and still finding it difficult to access care, support and special education despite the ratification of the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the Netherlands in 2016. The report states that legislation introduced in 2015 under which employers were given a bonus to employ disabled people has …

People with disabilities less included in Dutch society than 3 years ago: report
5 years, 3 months ago

People with disabilities less included in Dutch society than 3 years ago: report

NL Times  

The position of people with disabilities in the Netherlands is deteriorating. Over the past three years, it has become more difficult for people with disabilities to fully participate in society, according to a report commissioned by the UN Convention Alliance, a collaboration of five organizations that advocate for people with disabilities, which will be handed to the United Nations Human …

Government scraps controversial plan to pay disabled less than minimum wage
6 years, 6 months ago

Government scraps controversial plan to pay disabled less than minimum wage

Dutch News  

The government has abandoned its plans to allow companies to pay people with a disability less than the legal minimum wage after concluding the process would be too complicated. At the moment companies that employ disabled people are given a subsidy by the local council and the person in question is paid according to the same collective labour agreement as …

Government scraps controversial plan to pay disabled less than minimum wage
6 years, 6 months ago

Government scraps controversial plan to pay disabled less than minimum wage

Dutch News  

The government has abandoned its plans to allow companies to pay people with a disability less than the legal minimum wage after concluding the process would be too complicated. At the moment companies that employ disabled people are given a subsidy by the local council and the person in question is paid according to the same collective labour agreement as …

Dutch govt. makes it easier for disabled people to find a job
8 years, 4 months ago

Dutch govt. makes it easier for disabled people to find a job

NL Times  

The Dutch government is making it easier for employers to hire people with disabilities. On Friday benefits agency UWV launched an online system that puts employers in contact with disabled people looking for work, State Secretary Jetta Klijnsma of Social Affairs and Employment announced, Trouw reports. In addition to the new staff bank that contains nearly 60 thousand job seekers …

Over 50 pct. of Dutch with occupational disabilities are unemployed
8 years, 8 months ago

Over 50 pct. of Dutch with occupational disabilities are unemployed

NL Times  

Last year some 1.7 million people in the Netherlands between the ages of 15 and 74 years had some form of occupational disability. Of those between the ages of 25 to 45 years, the age group most active in the Dutch labor market, only 42 percent have paid work, according to figures released by Statistics Netherlands on Monday. According to …

New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail
12 years, 2 months ago

New work participation law for disabled doomed to fail

Dutch News  

Government plans to make companies employ a quota of disabled people, while cutting spending on reintegration projects, is a dangerous and paradoxical mix, write Nelleke Cools and Kees Cools. In future at least 5% of every company’s workforce will have to be made up of disabled people. Organisations which have never worked with disabled people before will look to their …

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