Shared result: Increase employment and economic opportunities

This shared result focuses on building employers’ confidence to employ disabled people and provide accessible workplaces, opportunities for work experiences, entrepreneurship, and education achievement and skill development.

 This result also recognises obligations in the CRPD, particularly Articles 24 and 27.

1. Priority: Increase the number of disabled people who transition from school and from tertiary education into employment

a) Improve transitions. Lead: Ministry of Education.

2. Priority: Increase the number of disabled people, including long-term unemployed disabled people, in paid employment and self-employment on an equal basis with others

a) Implement a long term work programme to improve employment outcomes for disabled people including the development of guidelines on reasonable accommodation. Lead: Ministry of Social Development.

b) Building on work in action 2(a), identify better alternatives so that the minimum wage exemption process can be removed. Lead: Ministry of Social Development and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

3. Priority: Increase the number of employers who are confident in employing disabled people, with the public sector taking a lead

a) Government to take a lead in employing disabled people and providing paid internships. Lead: Ministry of Social Development.

b) Work with private sector partners to progress employment of disabled people in the private sector. Lead: Ministry of Social Development.

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