The safety of schools should not come at the expense of employing the disabled. However, this is what the Government announced, deplore associations.
The Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research announced, Wednesday, August 31, 2016, during the evening of the summer university of the conference of university presidents (CPU), that 30 million euros would be devoted to the “technical or human security” of universities. Funds whose origin has raised an outcry. They come from the Fund for the Integration of People with Disabilities in Public Service (FIPHFP), which universities will be exempt from paying this year. “A new unacceptable puncture”, immediately reacted the National Federation of Accidents at Work and the Handicapped (FNATH).
In a press release published on Tuesday, she wrote: “This decision reflects the lack of interest shown by the Ministry of National Education in the employment of disabled workers, even though this ministry has already obtained exemptions for many years” .
500,000 disabled people looking for work
This puncture is the third in three years on this post, which makes a shortfall of 90 million, recalls for its part theAssociation of the Paralyzed of France (APF). She therefore denounces this new blow to the employment of people with disabilities by the government. This while more than 500,000 people with disabilities are looking for work (+ 130% in 7 years), a record. In this regard, the association also pinpoints universities which employ “only 1.6% of workers with disabilities – instead of the 6% legally required”.
“Too much is too much,” writes the APF, which was already worried about tens of millions of euros missing from the coffers of this fund. “Because of these exemptions, the FIPHFP’s collection revenues have been lower than its expenses for several years! “
And we must add to this sum the 29 million euros which are taken each year from the FIPHFP and Agefiph to finance subsidized jobs for all, and not specific aid for people with disabilities. . Faced with this situation, the APF asks the government to finally take up “this priority issue and provide concrete, urgent responses to people with disabilities”.
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