Description
The National Strategy for Labour Market Integration and Maintenance of Handicapped Persons is designed to achieve employment equality and enhanced labour market participation for people with handicaps.
The Strategy proposes a balance between labour market stakeholders’ responsibilities in areas such as hiring and workplace adaptation, and areas requiring government contributions or involvement.
One of the broad objectives of the Strategy is to mobilize labour market players and involve them in the necessary efforts to ensure that more people with disabilities enter the labour market and remain employed for a longer period of time.
Strategy highlights:
- Additional investments of $142.8 million over a
five-year period, including $102.6 million from
the Québec government and $40.2 million
from private businesses.
- Increased funding for employment integration
contacts (CITs), to enable 2,750 people with
handicaps to enter the labour market over
the next five years.
- Gradual increase in the Programme de subventions
aux entreprises adaptées (grant program for
adapted businesses) in order to create 825 new
jobs by 2013.
- New work premium for people with a severely
limited capacity for employment.
- Work income supplement for long-term recipients
of financial assistance who find employment.
- Increase in the refundable tax credit for an
on-the-job training period to 40% and double
the number of hours of supervision.
- New front-line assistance for employers
1 866 640-3059 (centralized toll-free number)
centre.assistance.placement@mess.gouv.qc.ca
- Better regional collaboration
between stakeholders.
- Better representation of people with handicaps
in the Québec public service.
- Gradual increase in the number of trainees
in the Québec public service.
- Addition of the handicapped persons group
to the Programme d’obligation contractuelle
(contractual obligation program).
- Better school integration and
school-to-labour-market transition for
young people with handicaps.
- Skills development and recognition for adults
with handicaps.
