Grupo envera has participated in the VI Disability Day. This day was held within the framework of the International and European Day of Persons with Disabilities under the title "Looking towards employment: the value of skills".
Rubén Ortiz León, Coordinator of the Labor Integration Service of envera Laboral, participated in the VI Disability Day held by the Chamartín District Council of Madrid in the framework of the International and European Day of Persons with Disabilities under the title "Looking towards employment: the value of skills.
Rubén Ortiz León, during his participation in the expert round table "Looking towards employment", pointed out "the difficult situation of people with disabilities in terms of employment. In 2012 there were more than one million people with disabilities of working age (16-64 years old), potentially active population and they had an activity rate of 36.6%. This rate is 40 points lower than that of the population without disabilities (77.0%). The unemployment rate for people with disabilities was 33.1%, 8.1 points higher than that of the non-disabled population".
"Households in which people with disabilities live must assume additional disability-related expenses for which they do not always have financial coverage (technical aids, medical treatment, drugs, transportation, etc.)" added the coordinator.
Rubén Ortiz explained a decalogue of reasons for hiring people with disabilities and ended with the need for the associative sector to reinvent itself; "We are at serious risk of losing the gains achieved in recent years. If in the future we have to face new stages of development and growth, we cannot do so having first destroyed the associative, social and solidarity fabric we have. We cannot fall into discouragement, we have to continue looking for ways out, aware of the difficulties we are facing. We must recover the vindicating and mobilizing essence of the associations, rethink our scope of action, seek unity to have greater strength, plan our activities with a vision of the future and improve our communication with society."
