Question 16087 — people with disabilities

Summary

Ms. Sandrine Josso questions the Minister of Labor on the impact of the law for the freedom to choose one's professional future on access to work for people with disabilities. In order to promote the direct employment of disabled people, the law now provides that subcontracting contracts entered into by companies or communities with work assistance establishments (ESAT), adapted companies (EA) and self-employed workers with disabilities (TIH), who represent a total of nearly 250,000 workers with disabilities, could no longer partially fulfill the obligation to employ disabled workers up to 6% of the workforce. The Government indicates, however, that the future methods of calculating the use of subcontracting will be defined in a future decree with an objective of “neutrality financial”. Associations representing disabled people are raising concerns about the effect of this reform on contractors, who may no longer be encouraged in the same way to resort to subcontracting. The associations are, in fact, worried that the reform will directly weaken the work of the 250,000 people with disabilities, who today have access to work through of the support offered by work assistance establishments and services (ESAT) and whose work capacity is less than or equal to one third of that of a so-called “valid” person, who are employees in an adapted company or self-employed. She would therefore like to know how the Government intends to also guarantee financial neutrality for work assistance establishments and services, adapted businesses and self-employed workers with disabilities, whose activities could be directly and negatively impacted by the reform of the obligation to employ disabled workers, which nevertheless aims to improve access to work for people with disabilities.

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