Before the International Day of Working People, the federation has published a manifesto that asks the public administration for a greater inclusion of the group in the ordinary company.
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The Biscay Coordinating Federation of People with Physical and/or Organic Disabilities, Fekoor, has asked the Basque Government to “promote the social inclusion” of the group by increasing aid for their labor insertion in the ordinary company.
Before May 1, the International Day of Working People, Fekoor has released a manifesto entitled “For the right to a job of free choice for people with disabilities”.
In the document, the Biscayan entity warns that the unemployment rate of people with disabilities is “much higher” than that of the general population (16.5% vs. 8.5%) and adds that the crisis “has increased this gap even more, limiting access to employment for the group to protected employment, given that it is where most of the public aid is concentrated”.
Fekoor highlights that the autonomous Executive “increases every year the subsidy for special employment centers.” Specifically, this 2022 the figure is 65 million euros, 4.4 million more than the previous year.
“Meanwhile, to promote the employment of people with disabilities in the ordinary market, the aid has been maintained at 700,000 euros for years, which marginalizes us, violates our fundamental right to work where we choose and does not favor our social inclusion”, reproaches.
The federation wants to make it clear that it is not “against” public services to support special employment centers, although it considers that, “in the same way, it should promote and favor that people with disabilities can choose where to work if we are qualified and trained for it.
In this sense, it requests the Public Administration to increase aid so that “the barriers that impede our insertion in the ordinary market disappear”.
Likewise, it urges the public authorities to bet on aid for hiring in sectors and professions where disability is “less represented, such as customer service or technology companies, sectors that allow our visibility and social normalization”.
Source: Eitb
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