Measures to facilitate work and employment
3.8.2 Awards Awards to employers for efforts to improve employment opportunities are intended to recognize good employment policy and practice and to encourage other employers to do likewise (for example, Australia, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland). Awards may be made by a government agency or by employer networks/associations.
3.8.3 Other measures Symbols which public or private enterprises may use on their stationery, advertisements or other company literature indicating their commitment to equal opportunity and treatment for disabled workers are used to show good company practice and to encourage others (for example, Ireland, United Kingdom). Codes of good practice for employers have been developed in Belgium and the United Kingdom. Disability equality awareness training for employers and their employees is used in some countries, usually provided by non-governmental disability organizations. It is difficult to assess the usefulness of persuasion measures in influencing attitudes or behaviour. The EU survey of employment policies for people with disabilities concluded that disability organizations tend to believe that competing interests will almost always undermine their effectiveness (EC 2000, p. 209).
3.8.4 Key issues While attitudes expressed in employer surveys may not always be reflected in employer behaviour, persuasion measures should at least help to heighten awareness. Like voluntary quota schemes, however, persuasion measures are no substitute for legislation and other obligatory measures in promoting equality opportunity and treatment for workers with disabilities.
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Disability management
The practice of disability management has developed in recent years as a means of facilitating the recruitment, advancement, job retention and 108