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10.04.2024 – The 11th Report on the state of implementation of Law No. 68 of 12 March 1999 ‘Rules for the right to work of the disabled’, drafted pursuant to Article 21 of the same law, has been published on the Chamber of Deputies website. The Report is based on the data transmitted by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies and was produced in collaboration with Inapp under a special agreement. The document was drawn up by the Disability and Non-self-sufficiency Research Group belonging to Inapp’s Social Inclusion Structure, on behalf of the same ministry.
The Report illustrates the main trends and results of the activities carried out by the competent territorial services for the years 2020-2021, the central period of the COVID-19 pandemic in which the social, economic and employment effects of the health crisis that has affected the entire world were expressed most strongly. In addition, Inapp edited some specific in-depth studies concerning agile work as a reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities in the period of the emergency and the effects of the pandemic on the targeted employment services.
Here are some summarised data.
In 2020, there were 794,937 persons with disabilities enrolled in the targeted employment lists, which decreased to 774,507 in 2021. The registrations during the year attest to the conditioning caused by the pandemic phase, with new registrations in 2020 not exceeding 53,000 (more than 40 per cent lower than the previous year) and then growing again in 2021 to 85,000.
Overall, total job placements, including the public and private sectors in Italy, reported by the services responsible for targeted employment, amounted to less than 30 thousand in 2020 and reached 37 thousand in the following year.
As far as recruitment is concerned, in the two-year reference period affected by the pandemic there was a decrease of more than 32 thousand total recruitments in 2020 and 41 thousand in 2021. Values that differ significantly from the performance of targeted employment in 2019, which reported over 58 thousand recruitments between the public and private sectors.
Another useful reference is the number of terminations of employment relationships between employer and employee. In the private sector, 23,473 cases were recorded in 2020 and 26,439 in the following year, with the predominant cause being termination in fixed-term contracts (around 30 per cent).
‘The picture outlined by the 11th Report to Parliament,’ comments Franco Deriu, head of Inapp’s Social Inclusion Structure, ‘shows that the system of the law on targeted employment has been able to withstand the effects of the economic and employment crisis caused by the pandemic. But it has also highlighted the limits of a system that can count on excellent legislation but is not yet able to bring about the cultural and perspective change necessary to ensure an effective non-discriminatory model of inclusion for people with disabilities seeking employment. An important contribution to change will come as a result of the current process of reform of disability legislation, contemplated in the NRP.’