ZAPOŠLJAVANJE OSOBA SA INVALIDITETOM U SRBIJI Moguænosti i izazovi

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which is a key factor in removing the prejudice about the capacities and working
effects of PWDs. In 90% they describe that experience as very positive. Every tenth
employer is sustained about working abilities of PWDs. There are no employers with
negative remarks on work of PWDs. During the employment process, employers give
priorities to formal education, working experience and additional knowledge and
skills.
Less than two third of employers assess actual possibilities for the employment of
PWDs as bad, especially in relation to women with disability. Still, employers are more
optimistic regarding the employment possibilities for PWDs in this year than in
previous period. Majority of employers is uncertain about their plans to employ PWDs.
Clear positive plans have just one fourth of interviewed employers.
Employers have positive opinion about measures for better employment of PWDs.
Three fourth of interviewed employers consider new measures for employment of
PWDs as useful or very useful. Every tenth employer has negative opinion about
employment quota. Almost half of interviewed employers are clearly dedicated to
employment of PWDs in accordance to the Law. Employers are familiar with benefits
for employment of PWDs but are not using them and only small number of private
employers used those benefits.
Effects of MIDWAY project activities
The results of this projects and positive experience in its implementation are good
recommendation for future activities and support to interested actors in other local
communities regarding employment of persons with disability.
From the beginning of 2010 number of employers who plan to engage PWDs is
getting higher. In first survey only one quarter of employers were planning to employ
PWDs while in the second survey their percentage is 60,4%. In the first questionnaire
almost half of employers were uncertain about employment of PWDs and in the
second one this percentage is insignificant. This is probably the result of adopted Law
on professional rehabilitation and employment of PWDs and obligatory quota as a
support measure in increasing the number of employed persons with disability.
During MIDWAY project implementation number of employers who were informed
on possibilities for employment of PWDs increased for more than 10%. There were a
lot of activities (round tables, presentations of the first round of research and coalition
forming on the local level for the improvement of the employment of PWDs) which
contributed to higher information level of employers. The number of employers who
get more informed about community employment action plans and special measures
for employment of PWDs is higher for almost 30%. During the project implementation
the number of unemployed PWDs who also get more informed about their
possibilities for employment increased for 18,1%. That indicate that information
campaigns are surely one of the ways to further improve preparations of PWDs for
employment.
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