Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Netherlands (Ratification: 1988)

The Committee takes note with interest of the first report of the Government and the detailed information supplied. It would be grateful if the Government would continue to supply in its next reports information on any new developments concerning the practical application of the national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons. Please indicate, in particular, the extent to which is being attained the target fixed by the Handicapped Workers Employment Act, 1986, for a national average of 5 per cent of the jobs to be taken by the handicapped. Please describe the measures taken or envisaged to improve the labour participation of the disabled or indicate whether the Government made use of the opportunity to impose quota obligations on branches of industry or government services, under the 1986 Act.

Finally, under Point V of the report form, please provide a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, particularly in relation with the statement in the Government's report that the total number of people that depend on disability benefits has to be diminished, while at the present moment the number is still rising.