Regional Law for the employment of disabled people promotes social enterprises competitiveness

Italian National Law 68/1999 promotes the integration of disabled people into the labor market through targeted placement actions. Defined reserve shares are set for disabled people that the employer is obliged to respect otherwise he pays a fine. Many companies pay fines rather than comply with the obligations increasing the percentage of disabled not working. To tackle the problem, E-R Regional Government issued the law17/2005 "Rules for the promotion of employment, quality, safety and regularity of work". Thus, even people in particularly serious conditions can find a job in a concrete way thanks to an original conventional system that provides for their inclusion in social cooperatives. In practice, the company obliged to hire the disabled may for up to 30% not proceed with the insertion in the company if it outsources part of the activity towards a social cooperative that inserts for the precisely such workers. In this way, E-R Region tries to remedy the problem of non-compliance with the obligation to hire disabled people but also creates a link between profit companies and social cooperatives. The former instead of paying fines use the same money to outsource services to social cooperatives. The latter employ disabled people as their own mission, fulfill their recruitment obligations and benefit from an increase in activity and economic resources. Beneficiaries: disabled workers, social cooperatives, companies.
Actors: Public Administration, Associations, Trade Union