Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain up to date information on the application of the Convention, particularly in reply to the points raised in the Committee’s 2004 direct request, which referred to the following matters.

Promotion of employment for persons with disabilities in the private and public sectors. The Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (TÜRK-İŞ) indicates in its comments received in September 2009 that, according to the data made available by the Turkish Employment Agency (IŞKUR), as of April 2009, 109,645 persons with disabilities were unemployed. The total number of persons with disabilities employed in the public and private sectors amounted to 65,983. The number of persons with disabilities employed in the public sector was gradually decreasing due to privatization, whereas those employed in the private sector increased. Nonetheless, an open quota of 22,986 persons with disabilities was still waiting for placement. The Committee notes, from the information included in the Government’s report received in November 2008 on the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), that the employment package adopted by the Government in 2008 (Labour Act No. 5763) provided for financial incentives covering social security contributions paid by employers who hired persons with disabilities beyond the 3 per cent rate established for enterprises with 50 or more workers. The Committee invites the Government to provide detailed information on the measures adopted to promote the employment of persons with disabilities, particularly in the public sector (Articles 3 and 4). Furthermore, the Committee invites the Government to include, in its next report, its own observations on the points raised by the TÜRK-İŞ.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2010.]