The Right Of Persons With Disability To Decent Work In Palestine “ Field Study” Recommendations for the General Personnel Council: 1. Retaining the rights of PWDs to employment in the public sector through creation of job opportunities that match their professional and educational qualifications in compliance with the provision of the law (5%). 2. Drawing policies and setting strategies that ensure employment of PWDs within the framework of human rights-based national strategy. Not on the principle of sympathy and charity. This comes within the framework of the positive measures to prepare and accommodate workplaces for PWDs. 3. Obliging every governmental institution, within its respective area, to include the issue of PWDs and gender into its policies and strategies. 4. Taking different types of disabilities, including seeing and hearing impairments, when designing job announcements for PWDs. Recommendations for the Ministry of Labor: 1. The Department of Employment should nominate a number of PWDs to work in the private sector to ensure implementation of the quota of at least (5%), allocated under the law for PWDs in holding public office. It also comes within the framework of MoUs and agreements aimed at employing PWDs in the private sector. 2. The Department of Monitoring and Inspection at the Ministry of Labor should make sure that each institution of the private sector, which employs more than (20) workers is committed to the quota of at least (5%) allocated under the law for PWDs. 3. Activating joint cooperation between the government, represented by the Ministry of Labor, and the private sector to give PWDs access to decent work. 4. Making available job opportunities for PWDs through communication, coordination and cooperation among institutions relevant to PWDs and businessmen to ensure job opportunities for them. 13

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