Key Issues
Challenges in seeking employment
- Low literacy levels:
- Lack of access to skills and technology:
- Ignorance, Misinformation, and Prejudice:
- Access to information on job opportunities
- Inadvertent exclusion:
Challenges during employment
- Lack of effective integration processes
- Development Plateau and Lack of Career Advancement
- Redundancy due to lack of skilling
- Ineffective redress mechanisms
- Inadequate job identification process and inappropriate assignment of work:
- Inadequate workplace accessibility:
- Lack of earmarked budget/willingness to invest in PWD related technology
- Limiting inclusion to corporate social responsibility (CSR) component
- Negative attitudes
- Challenges in socializing
- Misplaced Sense of Perpetual Indebtedness
- Transport/Mobility
Policy framework
- The UNCRPD
- ILO code of practice on managing disability in the Workplace
- Rights of people with disabilities act 2016 (RPWD act 2016)
- Employees state insurance act, 1948
- Employees compensation act, 1923
- The shops & establishment act
- Factories act, 1948
- National voluntary guidelines on social, environment and economic responsibilities of business (NVGS)
Recommendations
The primary purpose of this paper is to prepare draft recommendations for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and SEBI to strengthen the proposed NVGs and BRR framework from the perspective of persons with disabilities.
Recommendations for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- Businesses should respect and promote the well-being of all employees including those in the value chain
- Businesses should respect and promote human rights.
Publication / Paper Copyrights
This paper was written by National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in collaboration with Oxfam India.
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