Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)


Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) :

ILO Convention No. 159 (1983) aims to ensure suitable employment and social integration for disabled persons, in conditions of full participation and equality. The ratifying Member State shall, in accordance with national conditions and possibilities, implement a policy of vocational rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons and ensure that the measures taken be available to all categories concerned. The representative organizations of employers and workers, as well as the representative organizations of and for disabled persons, shall be consulted on the implementation of this policy, which shall be based on the principle of equal opportunity between disabled workers (men and women) and workers generally (though not excluding special positive measures). Suitably adapted services for vocational guidance and vocational training, placement, employment, and so on, shall be made available to disabled persons. The Convention provides for the development of these services in rural areas and remote communities, as well as for the training of specialized counsellors. The term disabled person means an individual whose prospects of securing, retaining and advancing in suitable employment are substantially reduced as a result of a duly recognized physical or mental impairment. Detailed provisions are contained in the ILO Vocational Rehabilitation (Disabled) Recommendation, 1955 (No. 99), and in the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Recommendation, 1983 (No. 168), which supplement Convention No. 159 and the preceding Recommendation No. 99. See: Disability strategy of the European Union; Disabled people; Discrimination; Non-discrimination principle

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