Physical barriers to employment
Failure to take measures to remove physical barriers to employment for persons with disabilities

Type of entry: Potential Violation

... persons with disabilities, whether in rural or urban areas, must have equal opportunities for productive and gainful employment in the labour market... For this to happen it is particularly important that artificial barriers to integration in general, and to employment in particular, be removed. As the International Labour Organisation has noted, it is very often the physical barriers that society has erected in areas such as transport, housing and the workplace which are then cited as the reason why persons with disabilities cannot be employed. See A/CONF.157/PC/61/Add.10, p. 12. For example, as long as workplaces are designed and built in ways that make them inaccessible to wheelchairs, employers will be able to "justify" their failure to employ wheelchair users. Governments should also develop policies which promote and regulate flexible and alternative work arrangements that reasonably accommodate the needs of disabled workers. CESCR/GC5 IV(B)(22)

Broader Terms:

• Work, choice of work, vocational guidance and training
• Work, right to
• Work, obstacles to
• Employment practises and policies
• Employment practices or policies, discrimination in

Narrower Terms:

• Persons with disabilities, no transportation to workplace
• Work restrictions for people with disabilities

Other Related Terms (keywords):

• Discrimination
• Persons with disabilities
• Special groups