A majority of disabled people are excluded from quality employment, warns a report by the European Disability Forum (EDF) published on Thursday 27 April. Indeed, only 51.3% of people with disabilities and of working age are in paid employment. This rate falls to 49% for women and 47.4% for young people.
“Employment gap”
While the “employment gap” between disabled and non-disabled people is 24.4% in the EU, it goes up to almost 40% in countries such as Ireland or Belgium and does not...