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.
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