Discapacidad en el lugar de trabajo: organizaciones de empleadores y redes empresariales
Discapacidad en el lugar de trabajo: organizaciones de empleadores y redes empresariales
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Employers' organizations
Employers invest in training in order to improve productivity, innovate and adopt new technologies, and compete in changing markets. Case studies and research from individual employers and associations of employers on the Global KSP deal with apprenticeship and workplace skills provision, quality assurance and governance of training institutions, and employers’ roles in anticipating skill needs and in influencing national and sector policies on skills development.
ILO
The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org
People with disabilities
Of an estimated 1 billion people with disabilities in the world today, some 785 million are of working age. While many are successfully employed and fully integrated into society, most face a disproportionate level of poverty and unemployment. This is a massive loss both to them and their countries. A strategy of including people with disabilities in training and employment promotion policies, combined with targeted supports to ensure their participation, can help disabled persons obtain productive mainstream employment.
Case studies and good practices
Case studies that document good practices and illustrate the benefits and lessons learnt of particular approaches or methods in real practice.
Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
Discapacidad en el lugar de trabajo: Organizaciones de empleadores y redes empresariales aporta detalles que permiten conocer las formas en que distintas organizaciones representativas de las empresas abordan el tema de la discapacidad. Las prácticas descritas en estos ejemplos demuestran que estas organizaciones son actores idóneos para articular los intereses empresariales con la integración productiva de las personas con discapacidad en el mercado de trabajo. En momentos en que un número cada vez mayor de países está ratificando y adoptando medidas para la aplicación de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad –un instrumento integral de protección de los derechos humanos de este segmento de la población–, se hace cada vez más necesario brindar elementos para inspirar y orientar al sector empresarial. La publicación responde a un conjunto emergente de información que confirma la viabilidad comercial de contratar a personas con discapacidad y el interés de las empresas en mantener una fuerza laboral diversa.
