Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1995, publiée 83ème session CIT (1996)

Convention (n° 159) sur la réadaptation professionnelle et l'emploi des personnes handicapées, 1983 - Islande (Ratification: 1990)

The Committee has noted with interest the information provided by the Government in its first and second reports on the application of the Convention and, in particular, the adoption of the Disabled Persons Act No. 59 of 1992. It also notes the Government's statement in the second report to the effect that comparatively few disabled persons have been employed in the open labour market and that a large proportion of the disabled is employed in sheltered workshops. It would be grateful if the Government would describe, in its next report, measures taken with a view to promoting employment opportunities for disabled persons in the open labour market, in accordance with Article 3 of the Convention. Please also continue to provide information bearing on the practical application of the Convention including, for example, statistics, extracts from reports (such as reports of the Committee on the Employment of the Disabled, established under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Affairs, to which the Government refers in its reports), studies and inquiries concerning the matters covered by the Convention (for example, with respect to particular areas or branches of activity or particular categories of disabled persons), as requested by point V of the report form. Please supply a text of the judgement of the Supreme Court in the case referred to in the first report (point IV of the report form).