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Consultation:

Rights of persons with disabilities - work and employment

For the OHCHR report on work and employment of persons with disabilities which will be presented to the Human Rights council in March 2013

Submitted by Interessenvertretung Selbstbestimmt Leben in Deutschland e.V. – DPI Germany. DPI Germany is the umbrella organization of the Centers of Independent Living of persons with disabilities in Germany.

1. Employment of persons with disabilities

In the year 2011 about 3.23 million persons with severe disabilities within the working age lived in Germany. Compared to the year 2005 the number increased by six percent (+ 187.000). Considering the demographic development the number will have increased to 3.36 million by the year 2021.^¹

Whereas the general unemployment rate decreased by 21 % between 2007 and 2011, the rate increased for persons with severe disabilities by 1 %.^²

Currently about 291.000 persons with disabilities are employed within the almost 700 nationwide existing sheltered workshops (so called “Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen”).^³ This figure is rising steadily.^⁴

2. Legislative and policy framework / 3. Implementation of national legislation and policies

The federal republic of Germany does not fulfill the requirements that accompany the implementation of art. 27 of the CRPD:

Only about 5% of young persons with disabilities complete an operational training (training on the job).
Vocational training centers provide training on the job for only 1/3 of the young persons with disabilities. Only eight vocational training centers in Germany offer training on the job^⁵. So far 250 young persons with disabilities have finished training and part of them are going to finish their training soon. Further training on the job or Integrated Training with Vocational Education Centers is currently only promoted via pilot projects.^⁶
The process of awarding integration subsidy does neither proceed in a uniform nor consistent matter. In the case if long-term- unemployed disabled persons the process is especially restrictive. There are too many variations from region to region.^⁷
There is no free choice to choose between working in a sheltered workshop or on the labor market (as an alternative to the sheltered workshops) for persons with disabilities that require a high level of support and assistance.
There is a lack of support for employers as it comes to informing them about how to employ a person with disability, informing about myths, reducing prejudices and raising awareness concerning advantages of an inclusive labor market. Furthermore it lacks of communication or teaching about healthy working conditions also in a preventative sense.
Concerning the employment rate, women with disabilities face discrimination as their loan is still below the men´s wage. Whereas in 15 % of the men with disabilities between the ages of 25 and 45 gained less than 700€ per months, 39% of women with disabilities in the same age group earned less than 700€ per month.^⁸

4. Participation in policy-making

-involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in the development, implementation and monitoring of legislation and policies to promote and protect the right of persons with disabilities to work

Disabled peoples organizations or representative organizations are not equally involved in decision making processes. Usually that happens because government does not share or confirm the problem analysis of DPIs.

5. International cooperation

- programs related to the promotion of work and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities

There are several national pilot projects that deal with the transition from school into work, from a sheltered workshop into the general labor market or raising employers’ awareness about this topic, but these take place rather on a national level.

Contact:

Interessenvertretung Selbstbestimmt Leben in Deutschland, ISL e.V.
Wiebke Schär
Tel.: +49(0)30/ 4057 3679
Fax: +49(0)30/ 4057 3685
Krantorweg 1
13503 Berlin - Germany
E-Mail: [email protected]

Internet: www.isl-ev.de

1 Bundesagentur für Arbeit (2012): Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland – Der Arbeitsmarkt für schwerbehinderte Menschen. Available online at: http://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Statischer-Content/Arbeitsmarktberichte/Berichte-Broschueren/Arbeitsmarkt/Generische-Publikationen/Die-Arbeitsmarktsituation-schwerbehinderter-Menschen-2011.pdf

2 See above, chart on p.6

3 Available online at: http://www.bagwfbm.de/page/24

4 Available online at: http://www.lwv-hessen.de/files/272/Bericht_Entwicklung_Fallzahlen_EinglH_20012010.pdf

5 Online available at: http://www.bagbbw.de/wirtschaft/ausbildung/kooperationsmoeglichkeiten/bbw-unterstuetzte-betriebliche-ausbildung/

6 Online available at: http://www.bagbbw.de/wirtschaft/ausbildung/kooperationsmoeglichkeiten/verzahnte-ausbildung-mit-berufsbildungswerken-vamb/

7 Online available at: http://doku.iab.de/kurzber/2011/kb1211.pdf

8 Online available at: http://www.bmas.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/PDF-Publikationen/forschungsprojekt-a333-dritter-armuts-und-reichtumsbericht.pdf;jsessionid=F4D38083FA5E27B8D89EF9834B988B78?__blob=publicationFile see page 164. The short version in English “The German Federal Government's 3rd Report on Poverty and

Wealth” is available at: http://www.bmas.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/PDF-Publikationen/forschungsprojekt-a333-dritter-armuts-und-reichtumsbericht-englisch_kurzfassung.pdf;jsessionid=F4D38083FA5E27B8D89EF9834B988B78?__blob=publicationFile

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