📋 Tender Overview
The Ombudsmans special report on the situation of people with disabilities on the labor market shows a dreary picture in the absence of an inclusive labor market those affected would have to work in workshops for pocket money and without their own entitlement to social security. As a result they are forced to become dependent on social assistance and to live on the lowest level of subsistence security and young people are often qualified all too quickly as unable to work. With reference to the upcoming review of Austria by the UN Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2020 the Ombudsman Board recommends several measures to federal and state politicians that aim at better access to the labor market for people with disabilities including fair wages and insurance.The MPs agreed that there is an urgent need for action - both on the part of the federal government which is responsible for social security law and on the part of the federal states which are responsible for disability law. In the debate the fact that people with disabilities do not receive any wages for their work in day structures or in the workshops are not independently insured for social and pension insurance and are more or less always considered to be children was criticized as no longer acceptable. They are insured with their parents and are at subsistence level with the orphans pension. That does not correspond to the UN disability rights convention.Kira Grnberg VP and Heike Grebien Greens named the criteria used to certify the ability to work or permanent incapacity to work as a decisive point. Grebien criticized that one orientates oneself exclusively to the medical and not the social model. With the finding of permanent incapacity for work those affected would also have no access to the needs-based and differentiated network of professional assistance stated Grnberg. The two disability spokespersons of the coalition parties therefore informed about their independent application in this regard which is to be dealt with in the social committee. In essence the point is that the determination of the ability to work or the permanent inability to work must correspond to the paradigm of the social model.The three opposition parties also tabled a motion but it was voted in the session and did not receive the required majority. In it Rudolf Silvan SP Christian Ragger FP and Fiona Fiedler NEOS called on the federal government to implement Article 27 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities according to which all people have the right to work in a proper employment relationship and thus earn a living can. This right is to be enshrined in both the Disability Equality Act and the Federal Disability Act. This must also be fixed in the objectives of the disability laws of the federal states.
