Actions

Planning and training for entering employment

4.1 - Provide education and training opportunities to increase the individual capacity of disabled people to move into employment.

4.2 - Enable disabled people to lead the development of their own training and employment goals, and to participate in the development of support options to achieve those goals.

4.3 - Educate employers about the abilities of disabled people.

4.4 - Provide information about career options, ways to generate income, and assistance available for disabled people.

4.5 - Investigate longer-term incentives to increase training, employment and development opportunities for disabled people.

4.6 - Ensure a smooth transition from school to work.

4.7 - Investigate the requirements of the International Labour Organisation Convention on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment, with a view to ratification.

Employment and economic development

4.8 - Encourage the development of a range of employment options recognising the diverse needs of disabled people.

4.9 - Ensure disabled people have the same employment conditions, rights and entitlements as everyone else has, including minimum wage provisions for work of comparable productivity.

4.10 - Make communication services, resources and flexible workplace options available.

4.11 - Operate equal employment opportunity and affirmative action policies in the public sector.

4.12 - Investigate a legislative framework for equal employment opportunities across the public and private sectors.

4.13 - Ensure disabled people have access to economic development initiatives.

4.14 - Encourage staff and service organisations (for example, unions) to appoint or elect disabled people as delegates and members of their executives.

4.15 - Ensure that the needs of disabled people are taken into account in developing more flexible income support benefits, to make access to work and training easier.

4.16 - Review income support provisions to ensure they provide an adequate standard of living