Employers on employment of persons with health impact assessment and disabilities: opinions and facts

Abstract

Employers on employment of persons with health impact assessment and disabilities: opinions and facts The materials of the article are devoted to the issues of actively involving persons with health impact assessment (HIA) and disability in the labour market. Attention is focused on the social responsibility of heads of state and private organizations to provide job for this category of citizens. Topical issues of the process of integrating citizens with HIA and disabilities into labour activity are noted. The degree of development of this problem in psychological, pedagogical and sociological literature is analysed. It is emphasized that the views of employers on the employment of persons with HIA and disabilities have not become the subject of special scientific study. A detailed experimental analysis of the questionnaire data of one hundred and thirteen leading employees of private and state structures from the sphere of business, production, education, medicine, etc. is proposed. Their ideas about problem areas and the specifics of hiring citizens with HIA and disabilities are examined. Their knowledge of the labour potential of this category of workers is compared with the most common patterns of behaviour of managers in the employment of persons with HIA and disabilities. The positions of employers during the interview, the selection of a vacant position and the area of work for this category of employees are analysed. There is a significant need for employers in state support when hiring an employee with health impact assessment. It describes the significant difficulties that, according to employers, managers experience in hiring people with HIA and disabilities. The assumptions of employers about the probable problems of finding a job that applicants with health restrictions may have are analysed.

Modern Trends of Russian Labour Market: Employers and Employees Expectations

“…Flexibility, the ability to quickly adjust strategy, multitasking, and the ability to learn quickly come to the fore. These qualities allow us to solve problems in the current crisis conditions: everything changes every day, new technologies are forced to appear, and we have to quickly adapt to these changing circumstances – says Tulubenskaya [ 11 ], partner at Kontakt InterSearch Russia.…”

“…Another labour market trend discussed in the academic literature is a more active policy on employment of people with disabilities [ 11 ]. The trend we have already mentioned, caused by flexibilisation combined with the trend towards distant work, leads to an increase in the number of freelancers, whose specific work activity is also strongly condemned in the scientific community.…”