“We must move from the obligation to the desire to recruit people with disabilities”, declared on franceinfo Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State in charge of People with disabilities, on the occasion of the European Week for the employment of people with disabilities.
The Secretary of State recalled that a legal obligation requires private companies to employ a minimum of 6% of people with disabilities, “we are at 3.8% today, it is progressing”, she observed. “We see that employers are not malicious, they are helpless, because there is still too much prejudice about disability.”
According to Sophie Cluzel, it is also necessary to better train disability advisers, who are mandatory in companies with more than 250 employees. “All the systems are still complex, we have to help them”, she admitted. She confessed to prefer “the accompaniment” from companies to coercive measures.
“The general public must realize that the handicap is my colleague at work, it is the family who live next to me.”
Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State in charge of People with disabilitiesto franceinfo
“There is still a very discriminating view of disability, for a long time it did not circulate in our city, there were specialized establishments for a long time, but apart”, remarked Sophie Cluzel, underlining the initiatives of the government for an “inclusive school”.
She also returned to the DuoDay operation which will take place this Thursday, November 18, and which makes it possible to create meetings between an able-bodied person and a disabled person in companies, “It works very well.” 290,000 jobs are available to employers, last year 10% of these duos led to professional integration.