Disabled People
Major gaps exist in our knowledge about the position of disabled people in the New Zealand labour force. Greater attention needs to be paid to collecting reliable annual data on the recruitment, retention, pay rates, and seniority of disabled people. With the available statistics we assess that there has been little progress, if not regress, in the employment position of disabled people. In 2003 significantly more disabled people were unemployed, and complained about discrimination than in the middle 1990s. In the core public service most departments have not made progress in employing disabled people, in identifying the barriers to their equal employment opportunities, or in retaining existing disabled employees. Indeed, the number of disabled people working in the core public service has declined in recent years. Given this report on progress or the lack of it for disabled people, we consider disabled people to be one of the most disadvantaged groups in the current New Zealand labour force.
The full chapter on disabled people in Framework for the Future is available below.
| Document | Summary | HTML | |
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| 'EEO progress for people with disabilities' - full chapter from Framework for the Future | Either download the full PDF of the report (which will open bookmarked to the chapter on Disabled people), or view the full chapter in an HTML page. | Download | Read |
What disabled people want at work
In 2005 the EEO Trust developed guidelines to help employers effectively tap into the skills and energy of disabled people. The guidelines were based on the findings of a survey of 368 disabled people who told the EEO Trust about their experiences at work and how employers could better use their talents. Read the toolkit online here; or download the executive summary and full literature review in Word; or download the full toolkit in PDF.