Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

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

Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention. Implementation of a national policy for the vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities. The Government reiterates the information provided in its previous report concerning legislative amendments on the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. The Government further indicates that the state’s administrative body has met the statutory five per cent employment quota for persons with disabilities. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the results achieved by the national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities in terms of their integration into the open labour market. It also requests the Government to provide information on the practical application of the Convention, including statistics, both in the public and private sector.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2017.]