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The Quota Act – UK Case study The quota system is a mandatory policy that obliges employers to employ a certain percentage of persons with disabilities as part their workforce. This quota system is not the only measure for employing persons with disabilities. This makes it more difficult to judge the effectiveness of enforcing suchContinue reading “Removing the disability quota system; can this provided a different context for understanding the requirements for integrating persons with disabilities into the labour market?”

Two ways to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities are the implementation, and monitoring, of laws and policies. Being the smallest state in the European Union, Malta still needs to ensure that persons with disabilities are given the right to access employment. Although this has been done during the last few years by adoptingContinue reading “Legislation safeguarding persons with disability on a national level.”

In recent times, there has been an extensive effort made to fight any form of discrimination against persons with disabilities’ entering the open labour market. This effort has been carried out on an International, European Level and national Level. The main objective of human rights efforts is to guarantee basic freedom, and to permit theContinue reading “Legislation about persons with disability”

It is estimated that there are about 70,000 social enterprise in the United Kingdom. This is quite an increase since 2006 and 2004 when 55,000 and 15,000 social enterprises were identified, respectively. (Social Enterprise UK, 2013; Harding, 2006). Just over half (52 per cent) of social enterprises surveyed in 2013 actively employ people who areContinue reading “Social Enterprise in Malta, are we there yet?”

Sheltered employment is by far one of the most disputed method of employment when open employment is not an option for several reason for an individual to enter the labour market. The ILO has recommended in the past that “appropriate government support for the establishment of various types of sheltered employment for disabled persons forContinue reading “The relevance of Sheltered Workshops.”

Supported employment originated in the United States. The main aim was an alternative to traditional rehabilitation programmes for persons with severe disabilities. This type of employment is a versatile model that can be provided in a variety of ways. Parmenter (2011) states that such variety of supported employment can be individual placement, Hybrid, and mobileContinue reading “Supported and Hybrid Employment”

My participation in 2018 – Representatives from the Australian, British, Fijian and Maltese missions. The Commonwealth, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Australia, Malta, Sierra Leone and Vanuatu, held a side event on disability inclusion in the workplace on the margins of the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.Continue reading “An inclusive work environment is a ‘must factor’ for people with disabilities”

The mission of the Ronald McDonald House Charities Malta’s Learning Centre is to safeguard the well-being of children or young people in need of educational support. RMHC Learning Centre Malta 2020 Impact

My contribution regarding workplace disability quotas work in Malta during an interview by Daiva Repeckaite; 20th May 2020 ‘Disability and employment expert Tonio Axisa, who is working on a PhD on the subject at De Montfort University in the UK, notes that disparities between the different disability registers used in Malta has been an obstacleContinue reading “Making workplace disability quotas work in Malta”