The word "inclusiveness" has made a immense career. And rightly, due to the fact that the inclusion policy – if free from ideological extremes – serves everyone. besides employers, which is peculiarly evident in the current situation on the labour market.
Christopher has arrived.According to experts, within the next decade, as many as 2 million workers will be surviving in Poland. It does not take 10 years to see serious problems: 82% of SMEs are presently complaining about deficiency of employees. The inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour marketplace is so not only a decency but a necessity today. In order to do so, we request to change the laws that are disturbing.
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Labour law is not keeping pace with marketplace developments
It is not that Polish government ignores the issue of work for the disabled. The problem lies elsewhere: as in another labour marketplace segments, regulations do not follow the dynamics of change.
Here I will mention to the expert of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, Emilia Szczukowska, who participated in the November debate on including people with disabilities in the labour market. The debate “Work marketplace open to people with disabilities: how to build awareness of employers and possible employees of the scope of synergies of benefits” took place at the Office of the Ombudsman in the framework of the 6th legislature of the wellness of Poles organized by Prof. Henryk Skarżyński – Winner of our competition “Excellent Pole”. She pointed out that the goal should not be to give specified people peculiar benefits, but simply to equalize opportunities.
The current regulations, on the 1 hand, supply people with disabilities with wide protection and a scope of facilities, on the another hand, limit the anticipation of wider professional activation. On the 1 hand there are additional days off, leave for rehabilitation, etc. But also, in the case of different groups of people with disabilities, the ban on night work or the ban on overtime. Even if they can and are willing to take up specified duties.
Cost simplification – and bureaucracy
It is besides clear that, especially in the case of tiny and medium-sized enterprises, legal restrictions discourage employers from hiring people with disabilities. Not due to the fact that they do not believe that they can be excellent, creative workers. They simply number labour costs and fear, for example, that additional leave for rehabilitation or additional restrictions will make the individual with disabilities little available and at the same time more costly for the employer.
There is another aspect that discourages employers – suspicion of the state. Obscious checks, checking whether people with disabilities are actually working in a given company, the request to make appropriate reports, to break through bureaucracy... It may not be a problem for a large corporation, but it is for tiny and medium-sized companies.
State role: good law
Today, it is not a key issue to make conditions that encourage the employment of persons with stock-liability companies or another large companies. They hire people like that. tiny and medium-sized enterprises should be encouraged to open up more to this group of workers. Without a comprehensive change of law, this cannot be done. The legislator must, by preparing fresh regulations, respond to concerns raised by employers. How to reduce the costs associated with the work of specified persons as to reduce the nuisances which, inter alia, make various checks.
I would stress again: this would be a consequence not only to the needs of people with disabilities but besides to the needs of the SME sector. The sector that struggles – and everything indicates that it will proceed to conflict – with a dramatic deficiency of employees. The needs of both sides complement each another perfectly: so let decision makers aid by introducing the essential regulations!
Christopher has arrived., president of the Polish Promotional Emblem Foundation, known for over 30 years as the organizer of the competition “Now Poland”.
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