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

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Germany (Ratification: 1989)

The Committee notes the Government’s simplified report for the period ending in May 2010. Besides other references, the Government mentioned the legislation which incorporated into domestic law the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol ratified in February 2009. The Committee invites the Government to describe in more detail, in its next report, the measures adopted to enable persons with disabilities to obtain and retain employment and to advance in their professions. It also invites the Government to provide an overview of the measures taken in the context of the national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities (Articles 3 and 7 of the Convention). Please also indicate how the representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations of, and for, persons with disabilities are consulted on policy implementation (Article 5).

In addition, the Committee invites the Government to provide, in its next report, general information including, for example, statistics, extracts of reports and studies or surveys on the matters covered by the Convention (Part V of the report form).