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

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

National policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities. The Committee notes the Government’s detailed report received in January 2011 for the period ending in May 2010 and the comments provided by the workers’ organizations at the National ILO Council in August 2010. The Government indicates that the purpose of the new, more complex system included in Directive No. 1/2008 is to ensure that expert opinions regarding health impairments, disabilities, altered working capacities and other disabilities arising from diseases, injuries and disorders are based on unified professional principles and methodology. Attention should be given to the remaining developable abilities, changes in professional working capacity and rehabilitation chances. The workers’ organizations also indicate that the fact that wage support may be granted for a period of one year does not stimulate employment retention. In 2009, no tenders were invited for job creation for persons with disabilities, which had formerly been financed from the rehabilitation part of the Labour Market Fund. The Government replied by indicating that a support programme has been launched with the aim of creating jobs for the employment of persons receiving rehabilitation allowance. As to the tender invited every year for job creation from the Labour Market Fund, additional programmes were offered to employers undertaking to hire jobseekers with disabilities. The Government provided statistical data indicating that 63,698 persons with disabilities received employment support in 2009, which included wage support, cost compensation, rehabilitation cost support and social employment. The figure was down from 70,939 persons in 2008. The Committee invites the Government to include in its next report information on the results achieved by the national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities, more specifically the measures adopted to enable persons with disabilities to obtain and retain employment in the open labour market. It further invites the Government to provide statistics disaggregated, as much as possible, by age, gender and the nature of the disability, as well as extracts from reports, studies and inquiries concerning the matters covered by the Convention (Part V of the report form).