Action plan for the recruitment of disabled persons

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With the aim of setting up a coherent policy and being able to organize the reception and the integration of disabled persons wishing to work for the City of Brussels, the Staff Department will appoint, within the service of human resources, a coordinator who will have to accompany handicaped persons throughout their career within the administration. This coordinator will be a reference contact for the handicaped person and will watch the application and the follow-up of the detailed Action plan below.

Measures

1) Facilitate the access to work*:

1. Affix label on the announcement of a recruitment, a clause which stipulates that every statutory or contractual co-worker makes a commitment to reject any shape of discrimination and that the City is an 'employer of equality of opportunity', which engages the agents on base of their capacities and their dynamism, independent from their age, sex, origin or handicap.

2. To take initiatives in the search for handicaped candidates via one or several associations which work on the recruitment and training of handicaped candidates.

2) Facilitate the integration in the workplace:

1. Organize seminars of sensibilisation for the staff and for the 'team leaders'. The Brussels French-speaking service for disabled persons (SBPH) intervenes in the cost of the course

2. Train the disabled persons: within the vocational training, the Brussels - Formation institute organizes and\or subsidizes trainings intended for disabled persons as well as for the City of Brussels.

3. Accompany and supervise the disabled person in his or her workplace:

• The French-speaking Brussels Service for disabled person grants a financial intervention of maximum 250 euro a month (during 6 months) to allow one of the colleagues of the handicaped person to supervise and to accompany the new employee in the company.
• The VDAB proposes a 'jobcoach' which accompanies the disabled during the first six months

4. To organize 'training courses of discovery' (initiative of the French-speaking Brussels Service for disabled persons) This training course has a maximal duration of ten consecutive days. It is not paid but the person is covered by an insurance. The objective is to allow the handicaped person to learn about the real and daily professional situation of a profession which he or she wishes to exercise.

5. Adapt the workplace according to the needs of the handicaped person (braille printer, adapted computer, ergonomics). Everything is implemented to adapt the workplace for a pleasant and effective work.

3) Social measures offered to the staff:

1. Grant 7 supplementary extralegal days off a year to the parents of handicaped children from 8 to 12 years old (that is after the period of parental leave).

2. Increase of the bonus granted to members of staff with handicaped children. The bonus will pass from 61,97 euro in 2008 to 250 euro in 2009.

4) Diverse social measures:

1. Training of the staff in the reception and supervision of handicaped children. This is done for the municipal nursery services.

Several educational projects of the day-nurseries of the City of Brussels plan to welcome handicaped children.

2. Analyze the needs of disabled persons at the municipal services opened to the public (accessibility, information).