Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Norway (Ratification: 1984)

National policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in the report for the period ending in May 2009. The Government indicates that a new inclusive working life (IW) agreement from 2006 to 2009 was put in place with the social partners aiming at reducing the number of persons going from employment to passive benefits, increasing the percentage of persons on long‑term sick leave who started attending vocational rehabilitation during the sick leave period and increasing the percentage of persons with reduced functional ability who go from national insurance benefits to work. The Norwegian LO expresses its hope that the political willingness to continue tripartite cooperation will continue after 2009, when the IW agreement expires. It also states that there is a need for an intensified focus on measures to improve the situation for employment of people with disabilities in a new inclusive working life agreement. The Committee invites the Government to provide in its next report information on the measures taken in cooperation with the social partners in order to ensure that appropriate vocational rehabilitation measures are made available to all categories of persons with disabilities and to promote employment opportunities for them in the open labour market (Articles 3 and 7 of the Convention and Part V of the report form).