EU Strategy on Disability Integration of people with disabilities into the labour market Erik Somelar European Commission Directorate General Employment,

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Workshop 4: Using the EU Structural Funds to support Independent Living Ines Bulic European Network on Independent Living Strasbourg Freedom Drive, 9 Sept.
Advertisements

PRESENTATION Youth and Health-an overview from the European Youth Forum Laura Cottey Member of European Youth Forum Working Group on employment and social.
An Overview of the European Policy Framework on Gender Equality Gender Agenda – Women, Men, Age and Employment in the Performing Arts.
Dorotea Daniele, Facilitator. The members Polish Ministry of Regional Development ESF Council in Sweden Lombardy Region Ministry of Labour and Social.
“Understanding the UNCRPD and making the rights a reality” Heather Logan Disability Action’s Centre on Human Rights for People with Disabilities.
A Framework for Fairness: Proposals for a Single Equality Bill Discrimination Law Review.
The EU Constitution - a more social Europe? Kathleen Spencer Chapman, 26 th October 2004.
The EU Strategy on Disability Wallis Goelen Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Head of Unit Integration of People with.
1 Changing attitudes and perceptions about older workers AGE - the European Older People’s Platform Changing attitudes and perceptions about older workers.
How the European Social Fund can contribute to social enterprises? Workshop 7: Structural funds (ESF, ERDF) for social enterprises Strasbourg, 16 January.
Sectoral Social Dialogue Local and Regional Government Committee of Regions, EcoSoc Committee 23 April 2013.
Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Development Cooperation Training course Brussels, 29 th + 30 th November 2012 Module 7: Implementation of disability.
“Framework for mainstreaming Ireland's experience" Siobhan Barron Director National Disability Authority Ireland.
Putting the UN Disability Convention into practice Sara Brunet, Senior Lawyer and UNCRPD lead officer, EHRC.
Equal Opportunities and Sport
The PROGRESS program Luk Zelderloo EASPD Project Development Workshop Sofia, Bulgaria.
A Common Immigration Policy for Europe Principles, actions and tools June 2008.
Conference on Active European Citizenship European Project « Dialogue with the EU – The Voices of the Citizens » Athens, 19 February 2010 Céline Simonin,
1 ESF 2000 – 2006 EX POST EVALUATION International Evaluation & Methodology Conference 6-7 May 2010 Budapest Anna Galazka European Commission, DG Employment,
On Disability Intergroup in the European Parliament and the new EU Disability Strategy Ádám Kósa member of the European Parliament president of the Disability.
Aldona Kowalczyk-Rębiś Agnieszka Kowalska
Structural Funds We have to act now! Javier Güemes Acting Director European Disability Forum.
European implementation and monitoring UNCRPD Inmaculada Placencia Porrero Deputy Head of Unit DG Employment social affairs and equal opportunities European.
The Finnish Association of the Deaf Linguistic Rights of the Deaf in the field of Vocational Education Kaisa Alanne The Finnish Association of the Deaf.
Lohmühlenstraße Berlin Tel.:+49 /(0)30/ Mainstreaming gender equality and the role of women in the European.
Update of EU disability strategy Javier Güemes Improving the integration of people with disabilities/ Sofia/ October 2006.
THE NEW LEGAL FRAMEWORK KEY CONCEPTS UNDERLYING THE EU DIRECTIVES AND PROGRESS TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION.
JáN KIMÁK LEGAL CONCEPT OF EQUALITY IN INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL LAW
The Concepts of Disability and Reasonable Accommodation Prof. Lisa Waddington, European Disability Forum Chair in European Disability Law, Maastricht University.
Ensuring Equality Policy Priorities & Practical measures for giving young women and men equal opportunities.
Nothing About Us Without Us w w w. e d f - f e p h. o r g EUROPEAN DISABILITY FORUM: WORK & VISION PEKKA TUOMINEN Finnish Association of People with Physical.
International legal frameworks Combating discrimination Luk Zelderloo, EASPD Secretary General 19 th – 20 th March 2009.
-The Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe -The AT European approach and future trends International initiatives.
Employment Research and innovation Climate change and energy Education Fighting poverty.
1 REALISING INTEGRATION ENAR policy seminar on migration, integration, social inclusion and anti-discrimination EU NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICIES AND THE.
European Commission Introduction to the Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity PROGRESS
III Mercator International Symposium November 2004 "Linguistic diversity and education: Challenges and opportunities" Mercator-Legislation “The right.
Introduction to PROGRESS Community programme for Employment and Social Solidarity Finn Ola Jølstad Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion.
The new EU cohesion policy ( ) EASPD Project Development Workshop May 10th – Sofia (BG) Jelle Reynaert – Policy Officer.
The UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
Accessibility Antidiscrimination Public Procurement Inmaculada Placencia Porrero Deputy Head of Unit Unit D3 Rights of Persons with Disabilities European.
ACE Project Conference – Tartu - Estonia June 2011 European Disability Policy : a right-based approach "Nothing about us without us”
Protecting the rights and improving the lives of persons with disabilities by Carlotta Besozzi European Disability Forum.
Policies and Procedures for Civil Society Participation in GEF Programme and Projects presented by GEF NGO Network ECW.
A project implemented by the HTSPE consortium This project is funded by the European Union SECURITY AND CITIZENSHIP RIGHT AND CITIZENSHIP
Convention 111 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 Fundamental principle Design and implement policies to promote equality of opportunity.
23 rd November, 2015 Franz Wolfmayr, EASPD president eb.at
Public Sector Duty: Putting Equality and Human Rights at the Heart of the National Drugs Strategy NIALL CROWLEY.
Monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) Kapka Panayotova Youth Summer School on Independent Living Istanbul,
European Disability Strategy Disability Strategy Adopted EC - November main areas key actions / each area to meet general objectives.
ACE Project Conference – Lubjana - Slovenia 3 February 2011 European Disability Policy : a right-based approach - "Nothing about us without us " Aurélie.
EPHA Presentation Healthcare and social services treated equally as estate agents or advertising companies excluded from the Directive or Healthcare and.
Mainstreaming horizontal principle Prevention of discrimination based on disability and accessibility
Commission européenne EU Employment Strategy for people with Disabilities Final Conference Conversion Strasbourg, 21 Sept Egbert Holthuis European.
School of Law Reasonable Accommodation Employment Lecturer: Shivaun Quinlivan Centre for Disability Law and Policy National University of Ireland Galway.
Inese Vilcane Social inclusion department Senior expert
Employment of disabled persons: Current developments at EU level
PRIORITIES in the area of employment and social policy during the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 1 January – 30.
Towards full participation of ageing persons with disabilities
Annelisa COTONE European Commission DG Justice
THE EU POLICY TO FIGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION.
The role of the ECCP (1) The involvement of all relevant stakeholders – public authorities, economic and social partners and civil society bodies – at.
Mainstreaming occupational health and safety (OSH) into education
ARTICLE 16 OF REGULATION (EC) 1083/2006
Culture Statistics: policy needs
European Standards for Equality Bodies An Equinet journey
Robert Anderson EUROFOUND President, Eurocarers
BASIC DATA ABOUT PWD IN SERBIA
The Enter! Recommendation
Health and safety at work in the EU
Presentation transcript:

EU Strategy on Disability Integration of people with disabilities into the labour market Erik Somelar European Commission Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Integration of People with Disabilities Unit (G3) 24 February 2010

Definition of disability and interpretation of data There is no common European definition of the term disability. Every country has a unique definition which might even vary in different policy areas (disability benefits, employment services, insurances etc.) In the LFS ad hoc module people were asked if they have "a long standing health problem or a disability". National labour statistics follow their own definitions. As they are different than in other member states, employment figures of the national registers are not comparable. Also, in some countries people do not register as disabled even though they could as the disability benefits are not relevant. In other countries, people are desperately trying to get a disability status as the benefits are rather valuable. In some countries, disability is the only exit strategy for older workers who want to leave the labour market and it is silently tolerated by government and social partners.

KEY FIGURES Proportion and inferred number of EU citizens with disabilities or long-standing health problems, age Population 2008* % Considerably restricted6,3% % to some extent restricted4,1% Total restricted %10,4% Total inferred restricted citizens % LSHPD (not restricted)5,2% Total LSHPD (not restricted) % of population, Restricted+LSHPD15,6% Inferred total restricted+LSHPD in Sources: LFS ad hoc module 2002, EU-24 *EUROSTAT provisional estimation, 1 January 2008

KEY FIGURES

Disability and ageing:  63% of people with disabilities are older than 45.  33,5% of people in the age group report a disability and the incidence of disability will increase as the EU population gets older. Among young people (16-25), the figure stands at 7,3%. People with disabilities continue to be disproportionately excluded from the labour market  50% of people with disabilities are employed, compared to 68% of non disabled persons. Among the 55+ group is 15% versus 45%.  Only 15.9 % of working disabled persons are provided with some assistance to work. At the same time, 43.7 % of respondents believe they could work if they were given adequate assistance. Additional disadvantage of women with disabilities: Access to education: Women (61% with disabilities versus 85% without); Men (65% with disabilities versus 83% without)

DISABILITY STRATEGY AT THE EU LEVEL Disability policies are essentially the responsibility of individual Member States Why a disability strategy at the EU level ? People with disabilities have similar concerns throughout the entire European Union, face the same obstacles, experience the same discriminations, share the same hopes and fears. European Community policies and actions impact in many ways on situation of people with disabilities The goal of the EU Disability Strategy is a society open and accessible to all The ultimate objective of all disability related activities at the European Union level is to promote equal opportunities and to facilitate access to rights for all people with disabilities.

INSTRUMENTS AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE EU Legislation Mainstreaming Funding Mobilising stakeholders through dialogue

LEGISLATION EC Treaty (Amsterdam, article 13) Horizontal legislation (Directive 2000/78/EC - anti discrimination in employment and occupation) Sector legislation (Regulation 1107/ transport by air; art 16 Regulation 1083/ Structural Funds; ) United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with disabilities Disability is a rights issue and a matter of law INSTRUMENTS AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE EU

MAINSTREAMING Ensuring that disability issues are taken into account in all policies, at every stage of policy making (Regulation 1083/2006- structural funds) FUNDING Structural funds New PROGRESS programme : - funding of running costs of disability NGOs - studies, research on disability related issues MOBILISING STAKEHOLDERS THROUGH DIALOGUE Nothing about people with disabilities without people with disabilities INSTRUMENTS AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE EU

The European Disability Action Plan Four pillars:  EU ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION AND MEASURES: Providing access to individual rights  MAINSTREAMING OF DISABILITY ISSUES: Mainstreaming in order to facilitate active inclusion of disabled people.   ACCESSIBILITY: Elimination of obstacles preventing disabled people from exercising their abilities.  MOBILISING STAKEHOLDERS THROUGH DIALOGUE: “Nothing about people with disabilities without people with disabilities”. (1) MS, (2) people with disabilities, (3) civil society representatives and (4) other stakeholders.

Directive 2000/78 on equal treatment in employment and occupation Even though the specific needs of people with disabilities are primarily addressed through national policies, the EU directive against discrimination (EC/2000/78/EC) constitutes an important step forward in the fight against discrimination which in certain Member States has required major changes to existing rules. This Directive had to be implemented in all Member States by December 2006 at the latest. Article 5: Reasonable accommodation for disabled persons In order to guarantee compliance with the principle of equal treatment in relation to persons with disabilities, reasonable accommodation shall be provided. This means that employers shall take appropriate measures, where needed in a particular case, to enable a person with a disability to have access to, participate in, or advance in employment, or to undergo training, unless such measures would impose a disproportionate burden on the employer. This burden shall not be disproportionate when it is sufficiently remedied by measures existing within the framework of the disability policy of the Member State concerned.

Proposal for a Council Directive on equal treatment between persons, irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, outside of employment Complementing the legal framework of Directive 2000/78/EC Strengthening inclusion of persons with disabilities in society will raise their participation in labour market: Education – learning skills for work Transport – getting from home to work ICT – being better equipped at work

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol The rights recognised by the Convention cover almost all policy fields, including work and employment (Article 27) The Convention not only recognises the right to work, but also sets out the measures needed for the full implementation of this right, e.g.: –Prohibit discrimination –Ensure reasonable accommodation in the workplace –Ensure effective access to vocational training –Promote the employment of persons with disabilities in the private sector through appropriate policies such as action programmes, incentives and other measures –Promote opportunities for self-employment, entrepreneurship In the area of employment there are mixed competences between EC and MS (all the MS and the EC signed the UN Convention)

Preparation of the new European disability strategy Analysis of the UN Convention (content and actions) –Clarify obligations (for EC and MS) –Identify actions (concrete measures) –Responsible services in EC Analysis of the Council of Europe Action plan –Identify actions (ongoing in MS) –Mapping and comparing with the UNC Evaluation of the current Disability Action Plan –Ongoing relevant actions –Successful instruments –Outputs

Elements in the new disability strategy Implementation UNC: –Implementation thematic level –Implementation at formal level –Coordination –focal point –independent mechanism –Monitoring: –Statistics –Indicators and targets with dates –UNC report Thematic Actions for: –European Commission actions –Possible common actions at National level –Support implementation of the UN Convention requires. –EU institutions –Civil society

Public consultation on new European Disability Strategy 4 November 2009 – 4 January 2010 on Your Voice in Europe General questions on respondents profile Individual Organisation Disabilities General statements comparing situation of persons with disabilities with general population Identification of problems

Public consultation on new European Disability Strategy Areas covered: Accessibility Employment Education Healthcare Free movement Independent living, institutionalisation and services in the community Participation in political and public life Participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport Adequate standards of living and social protection Liberty and dignity Governance: Coordination and management Role of the EU: (Legislation, Targets, indicator, Monitoring and evaluation, Financial support, Research and development, Awareness, public procurement,…)

Public consultation on new European Disability Strategy Ten thematic areas, each in two parts: Opinion on usefulness for each section of: –Actions, Measures –Initiatives –… Identification of organisations contributing –EU –National governments –Regional/ local government –NGOs, including disability NGOs –Private sector Space of free comments

Public consultation on new European Disability Strategy A total of 336 responses were received: –69.9% from individuals –30.1% (or 101) on behalf of different organisations –Additionally, 9 organisations sent separate contributions Profiles of contributors –Almost 50% of the individual respondents are PwD, further 16% are family members or non-paid carers and 8% take care of PwD as a job –organisations predominantly NGOs representing PwD, but also enterprises –country of origin for replies: Germany (23.4 %), UK (23%), Belgium (7.2%), France, Ireland and Italy (5.1% each). Discrimination is evident –79.4% agreed or strongly agreed that persons with disabilities face discrimination in their everyday activities because of their disabilities –43.5% of individual respondents indicated that they had experienced problems because of their disabilities –further 44.9% had indirect experience, through friends or family

Public consultation on new European Disability Strategy The role of the EU – which instruments are suitable: –the EU should do “more” or “much more” in all thematic areas –from 74% of respondents in leisure and sports to 86% in accessibility –65.5% supported using a combination of mainstreaming and specific policies, 75% did not consider mainstreaming alone to be sufficient. –disability-friendly public purchasing the most supported instrument with 92% "suitable" or "very suitable" ratings –financial support for local projects and research received "suitable" or "very suitable" from respectively 83.6% and 82.4% –financing NGOs "suitable" or "very suitable" for 81.2% of responding organisations or 76.5% of all respondents –information campaigns found "suitable" or "very suitable" by 80% –Legislation to harmonise disability-related objectives across Member States enjoyed 78.6% support; helping the MS to exchange information and best practice seen as "suitable" or "very suitable" by 86.1% of respondents –targets and indicators found "suitable" or "very suitable" by 76.2% - same measure supported by 77.7% in the “Governance” section