Since 2007, a mandatory employment quota (1.5% of the workforce) for national and private entities was introduced by the Regulation on the Employment Promotion for Persons with Disabilities. In 2015, the Ministry of Finance and the China Disabled Persons Federation jointly issued the Methods on Levying, Use and Management of Employment Security Fund for Persons with Disability No. 72 [2015] (“Methods”), introducing a change in its calculation.
As an indispensable pillar of diversity and inclusion strategy, human resources management and corporate social responsibility to facilitate equal employment opportunities, various good practices among different industries have been done to promote the integration of people of disabilities, including their proactive contributions to the Employment Security Fund for Persons with Disability.
Methodology:
Disability equality training (DET) is a dynamic, highly participatory and interactive approach to stimulating attitudinal change towards disability inclusion among UN personnel, government officials and other decision-makers, social partners, NGOs, employers, civil society and the general public. Developed in Ireland in the 1990s, DET is used by UN agencies, including ILO, UNESCO, UNICEF, OHCHR and UNITAR, and has been delivered on four continents to a very wide variety of participants, from Members of Parliament and company CEOs to schoolchildren and villagers.
The methodology respects participants as experts in their own fields, and aims to build on their existing knowledge and skills. Adaptable to local contexts, DET is aimed at increasing the participants’ confidence and competence of disability inclusion.
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is pleased to invite you to attend the Disability Equality Training on 27th February 2017 . Join us and find out why employing persons with disabilities and disability inclusion in sustainable development can help comply with Chinese policies but also benefit businesses, and practically how to do that.
Agenda
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 12:00 Morning Session
• Ice-breaking
• Concepts of Disability
• Disability Models
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Session
• Inclusion and Integration
• The Spectrum of Disability
• Reasonable Accommodation in Workplaces
• Legal Framework and Policies on Disability Employment
* All participants must bring their business cards to access the building and training
Training objectives:
The new calculation method of the Employment Security Fund since 2015, which is based on the average annual salary of the company employees instead of the previously required amount (city average annual salary) regulated by the local government, will have profound implications for many businesses.
More companies are coming to the awareness that this would potentially add more challenges on their financial situation, and the need to include persons with disabilities into the business cases, especially during the period of ‘New Normal’ when the domestic economy is slowing down, despite their willingness to support equal employment.
This training offers an immersive experience in in-depth discussions with world-class disability experts about global norms and solutions to disability inclusion in workplaces, and helps generate an action plan for your own inclusive employment strategy.
Some of the questions that will be answered in this training include:
- What are the latest Employment Security Fund for persons with disability policy and its implications for your company?
- How can employing persons with disabilities help to not only comply with governamental policy, but also create a fairer and happier workplace?
- How can employing persons with disabilities be good for all your employees?
- How to explore the” untapped source of diversity, talent and innovation.” through employing persons with disabilities?
- How to encourage persons with disabilities to join your team?
- How to create fruitful partnerships with government and specialist groups who can support you to employ and retain persons with disabilities in your workplace
- How to remove barriers to hiring and retaining persons with disabilities?
- What are the best practices of disability inclusion in the World?
DET can:
- Create active awareness of, and commitment to, realizing the human rights of people with disabilities
- Make an important contribution to improving opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in mainstream education, training, employment and social life
- Create deeper understanding of impairment, barriers and disability and how these impact on participants’ work and lives
- Introduce participants to basic tools and concepts that they can apply in their work, so that people with disabilities can achieve equal access to and participation in services, employment and social life
- Stimulate actual and meaningful change in participants’ day-to-day work and lives.
Payment:
You can pay at the day of the event using cash or local debit/credit cards. The European Chamber can give you an official fapiao for amount exceeding 200 RMB, and this will be sent to you via courier a few days after the event.
Terms & Conditions:
Events have limited seating so to ensure your attendance we encourage advance online registration and payment for ALL events. We cannot guarantee entry to anyone not registered in advance.
Cancellation Policy:
If you cannot attend an event for which you have registered, please cancel your registration no later than one business day prior to the event. If you fail to notify us of your cancellation in a timely fashion, you will be charged for event costs.
To cancel you can: 1) email: yangzhao@europeanchamber.com.cn, or 2) cancel online if you registered for the event through the website.
