“the myths and the facts of disability and work in portugal” josé miguel nogueira...

“The myths and the facts of disability and work in Portugal”

José Miguel Nogueira([email protected])

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Overview:

i. The inclusion: a paradigm change

ii. The study: “The Employment of people with disabilities“

iii. Final notes and future challenges

“The myths and the facts of disability and work in Portugal” José Miguel Nogueira ([email protected])

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The inclusion: a paradigm change"Inclusion is a human rights issue“(Center of Studies of Inclusive Education, s/d)


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Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (9 December 1975)

World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons (3 December 1982)

United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons 1983-1992,

Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities - Resol. 48/96 (20 December 1993).

The International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF)

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

“the road to inclusion”

“The myths and the facts of disability and work in Portugal” - José Miguel Nogueira ([email protected])

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European Employment Strategy

e-Europe 2002 - An Information Society For All (2000)

Council of Europe Action Plan (2006-2015)

Equal opportunities for people with disabilities: an European action plan (2004-2010) European Disability Strategy 2010-2020: A Renewed Commitment to a Barrier-Free Europe

“the road to access and participation of people with disabilities in the labor market in Europe”


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Constitution of the Portuguese Republic (1976) - people with disabilities - equal (the same) rights and duties

Exclusive legislation to promote the rights of persons with disabilities

National Action Plan on Disability (PAIPDI)

National Disability Strategy (ENDEF)

Active employment measures and other public incentives

“At national level”:


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Integration support Information, evaluation and guidance for qualification;

and employment; Support placement and post placement Funding for removing barriers and another adaptations

Support Employment Stages (up to 12 months); “Insertion Employment-Contract” (socially useful activities); Supported Employment-Contract.

Merit Award (for companies with good practices)

Disability Support Products

Main mesures in Portugal


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The Study


the employment of people with disabilities

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The Study:

Objetives

Characterization ofworkers

with disabilities

Evaluate the

professional performance of workers with disabilities

Evaluate the satisfaction of workers

with disabilities about their

career

Know the access to

employment and career

Identify the physical and

cultural barriers

Know the use of public

support measures

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Methodology:

Study

View of companies

View of workers

View of key

actors


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View of Companies

Online Survey

Representative sample

companies / organizations100 or more workers with

disabilities

202 surveys(October and November 2009)


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View of workers

Attendance survey

Representative sample

companies / organizations100 or more workers with

disabilities

328 surveys(July and August 2010)


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View of key actors

Academics viewGovernment view Organizations of

people with disabilities viewOrganizations of Employers view

11 semi-directiveinterviews

(March and April 2010)


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Results


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The 202 companies object of study (more than 100 employees), employed 146.760 employees, 1.720 (1,2%) with disabilities

1,2%

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7.0%

26.0%

35.0%

27.0%

5.0%21-30 years31-40 years41-50 years

Male58,8%

Female41,2%

(Goncalves & Nogueira, 2013)

General characterization of workers with disabilities

by age and gender

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Characterization of workers with disabilities: Difficulties in functionality (activities of daily living)

21,3%

13,7545,2

%

7,6%

5,8%

6,4% Difficulty seeing even with glasses or contact lenses

Difficulty hearing, even using hearing aid

Difficulty walking or climbing stairs

Difficulties of memory or concentration

Difficulty bathing or dress himself

Difficult to understand others or to make himself understood

(Very difficult or can not to do)



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4,1%

16,7%

10,6%

3,5%

27,1%

35,2%

2,8%

Mental / development functions

Vision functions

Auditive functions

Other sensory functions

Internal body system / Organs

Functions of the joints of muscles, bones (move-ment)

Functions of the skin and related structures


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• Comparison between the level of qualifications of workers' with disabilities and the universe of employees of companies with 100 or more employees


With no educational quali-fications

1st cycle

2nd cycle

3rd cycle

Secondary education

Higher education

Other

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

9.9

19.8

10.9

18.7

21.9

14.4

4.4

1.1

16.5

15.2

22.3

25.8

18.3

0.8

Works in general Works with disabilities

%


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• Integration in the company

• Companies view

• View of disablities Workers


Good integra-tion

90.1%

Some problems9.9%

Good integration; 93,9%

Some problems; 5,5%

Difficult (many prob-lems); 0,6%


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• With regard to absenteeism, the workers with disabilities, absent from work:

More often than workers without disabilities

5.0%

As often as employees without disabilities

78.3%

Less often than workers without disabilities

16.7%



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• Satisfaction with the professional performance of the workers with disabilities

23,3%

66,3%

10,4%

Very satisfiedSatisfiedDo not know / no answer


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• Satisfaction with productivity of the workers with disabilities


13,9%

72,8%

2,0%

11,3%

Very productiveProductiveUnproductiveDo not know / no answer


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View of Key Actors


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Strengths (Key actors perspective)


• The stigma tends to disappear when people with disabilities have the opportunity to demonstrate their usefulness to the company;

• The major companies have developed social responsibility strategies;

• In Portugal, the right to non-discrimination in employment is guaranteed in national legislation;

• Portugal has also many specific active employment measures for people with disabilities (recent implementation of the measure "supported employment“)

• Entrepreneurs agreed to help disseminate the results of this study to their peers

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Weaknesses (Key actors perspective)


• Although some advances, does not exist yet equal opportunities in access to employment in Portugal

• Overall, the companies unknown the active employment measures for people with disabilities;

• There is also a lack of knowledge about the real productive capacity of people with disabilities;

• The type and level of disability affects in access and in the career;

• Until does not improve the education and training of the people with disabilities, discrimination in employment will be continue

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Final Notes


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•The integration of people with disabilities in the labor market is currently seen as a matter of human rights and a key factor for their inclusion;

• The results of this study show when the people with disabilities have opportunities to work, they demonstrate their value;

• The findings show that it is a myth that disabled people are incapable. People with disabilities don't have integration problems, are assiduous, productive or useful to organizations;

• The results also show that employing people with disabilities is not merely a case of social responsibility, is in fact “a good business for companies”.

• However (and this is the point), how can the employment of people with disabilities increase in a country with a high global unemployment rate?

• This is the biggest challenge


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Ap

pro

ach We must take people with

disabilities “out the boxes”

Participation and Empowerment

Society FOR ALL

Promoting the equal Opportunities

Highlights

InclusiveSociety

Employment is a way to …


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… It's just a matter of human rights

OBRIGADO - THANK YOU !

“Disability need not be an obstacle to success” Stephen W Hawking


“The myths and the facts of disability and work in Portugal”

José Miguel Nogueira([email protected])

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