Can to make photograph but not to installChoisy urban renewal project is particularly extensiveAt this stage it is the subject of no prosecutionBercy nor the Ministry of SMEs are in sales at the reporting stage mail hotline etcAnd the Department lost Sunday energy and of the sea issuesA decision on appeal is expected tomorrowon TF1 France 2 and Canal for approximately a thirty hourAwareness is made but step implementationBut they are now questioning the procedureThen just start the 14eSemaine for the employment of persons with disabilities, employers highlight their action: public division of l ' Oréal presents the second edition of its operation "disability first chance", which will allow eight youth with disabilities, through apprenticeship training, obtaining their professional tray; IBM ratifies its eighth three-year agreement aimed, as a priority, to improve the level of skills and employability of people with disabilities; Aviva announces "first achievements one year after the signing of his three-year agreement. Kone, Spie, SFR, PwC... the list of companies who associate their name with these public initiatives is long.
However, on closer inspection, the situation is far from idyllic. Last year, the employment rate of persons with disabilities, in France, did not exceed 2.6. And employers, in their majority, are the 6 handicapped employees set by law: 3.79 in l ' Oréal, 3.5 at IBM, 2.37 of Aviva... There are few companies that, like Renault, account for 8 of workers with disabilities among their staff. Indeed, in 2008, a quarter of private companies had to pay penalties, according to a published survey a few days by the Direction of the animation of the research, studies and statistics (Dares) ago.
"Not enough profiles".
Balance sheet: persons with disabilities are more affected by unemployment (53 are long-term unemployed). According to the employers, the hiring of these audiences is complex. Especially as between individuals with Visual, motor, hearing disabilities or mental, the term "disability" covers disparate realities. Paradoxically, companies are struggling to find recruits. For "disability first chance", l ' Oréal had opened its doors to 20 candidates, but "did not find enough profiles". In addition, people with disabilities are often little qualified: 79 have a training level below the tray. Thus, if in 2009 EDF employed 11 of employees with disabilities among its commercial, they accounted for only 3 of its engineers. "The gap between the needs of the business and the profile of candidates with disabilities largely explains the slow progress," observed Pierre Blanc, Director General of the Agefiph, which collects the contributions of employers.
Double-edged strategy
Hence the initiatives taken by many to bring to young disabled people to the level of training required. Like banks, such as HSBC France, Société Générale, LCL or La Banque Postale, who built HandiFormaBanques to learn how to these audiences their trades. Also, relativizes Pierre Blanc, "the employment rate of persons with disabilities is progressing by 0.1 point per year since 2007". At the same time, institutions employing any person with a disability are more rare: "25,000 businesses"to zero quota"in 2006, we went to 10,500 in 2009", he says. The penalties established in beginning of the year are probably for something. January 1, the legislature has hardened the tone: except for the SMEs with 20 to 50 employees, who received a report of the sanctions until July, companies have used no employee disabled during three consecutive years have had to pay a surcontribution of 1,500 times the hourly minimum wage by employment missing. Only 1.088 societies had to fulfill.
But if the strategy is charged, it could prove double-edged. Because, because of the progress of business, the collection of the Agefiph aimed to promote the employment of the disabled public melted 10 in 2009. In addition, denounced the National Federation of associations of workers of life: "the of Finance Bill of new transfers of charges to the Agefiph.". Puncture of 60 million euros over two years, intended to finance vocational training for job seekers with disabilities, will decrease the amount of aid granted to workers with disabilities.
