04.12.2023 – Inapp celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, established by the United Nations in 1992, to promote awareness and understanding of issues related to persons with disabilities and to mobilise support for their dignity, rights and well-being.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), adopted in 2006, further enhanced the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. “The social inclusion of persons with disabilities,” the UN states, “is an essential condition for sustaining human rights, sustainable development, peace and security. Commitment to ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities is not only a matter of justice, it is an investment in a common future’.
The CUG (Comitato Unico di Garanzia) operates in the workplace for the inclusion and valorisation of staff with disabilities and for the prevention and countering of possible direct and indirect discrimination, in synergy with the other areas of competence for the Administration, to propose and support concrete actions aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities. In spite of the normative progress aimed at increasing inclusiveness, the criticalities in work participation of people with disability still remain significantly low: only 31.3% of those with severe limitations are employed, compared with 57.8% of people without limitations. The gap is even sharper for women with disabilities, who are employed in 26.7% of cases, compared to 36.3% of men.
Inapp, in line with the two-year Action Programme for the promotion of the rights and integration of persons with disabilities, and pursuant to national and international legislation – in particular art. 39 of Legislative Decree 165/2001, as amended, as introduced by art. 10 of Legislative Decree 75/2017 – has appointed a Disability Manager. The person will promote the inclusion of workers with disabilities in the workplace from the moment of their onboarding, enhancing, throughout their employment, their autonomy and professionalism and reconciling the specific needs of life, care and work.
In addition, Inapp pays particular attention to the study and analysis of policies aimed at promoting the social and labour inclusion of people with disabilities, such as the survey on university graduates with disabilities and the preparation and elaboration of the Guidelines on targeted employment for people with disabilities pursuant to Legislative Decree 151/2015.
It is necessary to foster and maintain an inclusive and participatory work environment, in which everyone feels recognised and is enabled to express their potential in an accessible society, without prejudice or preclusion.