Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1988)

Implementation of a national policy. In relation to the observation of 2006, the Government indicates in a report received in October 2010 that structural changes are taking place in favour of persons with disabilities. The Government is focusing on sectoral policies on disability and on enlarging the duties and responsibilities of the Directorate for Priority Groups at the Ministry of Labour Relations. The Committee requests the Government to supply a report containing information on the results achieved as regards integrating persons with disabilities into the open labour market (Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention). The Committee also requests the Government to include in its report practical information and statistics disaggregated, where possible, by age, gender and the nature of the disability, and also extracts from reports, studies and surveys concerning the matters covered by the Convention (Part V of the report form).

Consultation of representative organizations of employers and workers. The Committee refers to its previous comments and recalls the importance of consulting occupational organizations on the implementation of the policy of vocational rehabilitation and employment for persons with disabilities. The Committee requests the Government to include detailed information on the consultations held with the representative organizations of employers and workers regarding the measures taken to promote cooperation and coordination between the public and private bodies engaged in vocational rehabilitation activities (Article 5).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2013.]