The Implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Employment on the Basis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Abstract

Poland has made considerable progress in the implementation of Article 27 of the CRPD. Professional activity is one of the most important conditions for full inclusion and participation in society. Upon ratifying the Convention in 2012, Poland confirmed that persons with disabilities have the right to fully and equally enjoy all human rights. The level of legal framework is satisfactory in numerous respects. The difficulty in implementing the right to employment lies primarily in the manner of its practical implementation, absence of horizontal employment policy, other support systems affecting the right to work (social benefits and services, health care services, availability of services and benefits, accessibility of transport and technologies). Most Polish employers do not hire persons with disabilities at all. The analysis of the implementation of the right is also hampered by incomplete statistical data on disability in Poland. This paper presents the implementation of the right to employment in the period between ratification of the CRPD by Poland in 2012 until the drafting of this paper at the end 2018.