Inclusive Enterprises employ people with disabilities in full accordance with Article 27 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:
- Active in the regular labour market
- 30% to 80% of the employees in an inclusive enterprise are recognized as disabled workers
- All kinds of disabilities are represented in the workforce
- Ordinary law and collective agreement salaries
- Long-time contracts
- Social security benefits, unemployment pension, retirement pension
- Large range of activities and sectors
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Meaning for employees with disabilities:
- Free choice working
- Integration into working life
- Social impact on people with disabilities, on enterprises, on costomers and on society.
- Stable and disability-friendly employment, training and career opportunities
- Different from the protected or sheltered environment that is linked to the socio-medical framework.
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Specific legislation and added value for the State
- National support for inclusive enterprises usually includes:
- investment and wage subsidies
- tax benefits
- public procurement measures
- In return the state receives:
- Less expenditure on state social benefits
- Tax and social security revenue from employees
- More purchasing power through employees