Curated organisations, toolkits, research, and guides to support disability-inclusive employment worldwide.
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Danske Handicaporganisationer's (DH) page on employment: DH's employment policy and job initiatives (2024), figures and analyses on disability and the labour market (including VIVE 2024), as well as a guide on disability and employment.
Official SEPE publication (updated February 2025) with information on Social Security contribution bonuses for hiring people with disabilities: permanent contracts, temporary employment promotion contracts, training contracts, special employment centers, contract conversions, and substitute contracts.
The Swedish Public Employment Service's overview of support for disability or ill health: including on-the-job training, wage subsidies, a dedicated support person (SIUS), grants for workplace aids, and a person who introduces and supports you at work.
English-language overview of the Dutch Labour Costs Compensation (LKV, loonkostenvoordeel) for employers who hire people with an occupational disability, including the Banenafspraak ('Access to work programme') target group, with how long it is paid and how to apply via the wage tax declaration using a target group declaration from UWV.
Official Service-Public Entreprendre page (verified on 1 June 2026) presenting financial aids for hiring a disabled worker, mostly requested from Agefiph: aid for employment of disabled workers (AETH), aid for reception, integration and professional development, aid for hiring under apprenticeship contracts, with conditions and procedures.
Offizielle BMAS-Seite zum Eingliederungszuschuss (ยงยง 88 ff. SGB III): Arbeitgeber kรถnnen Zuschรผsse zum Arbeitsentgelt erhalten, wenn sie Arbeitssuchende einstellen, deren Vermittlung erschwert ist. Grundsรคtzlich bis zu 50 % fรผr maximal 12 Monate; fรผr behinderte und schwerbehinderte Menschen bis zu 70 % fรผr bis zu 24 Monate, bei besonders betroffenen schwerbehinderten Menschen bis zu 96 Monate.
Central independent information service on occupational participation and inclusion of people with disabilities, a project of IW Kรถln: 14 portals including information on assistive aids, funding opportunities, laws and court decisions, levy compensation and good practice examples for workplace inclusion.
Nav hjelpemiddelsentral provides employers with advice and guidance on aids and accommodations in the workplace for employees with functional disabilities. For aids, it is a prerequisite that the employee has a permanent impairment of functional capacity (over 2 years).
The Swedish Disability Rights Federation (53 member organisations representing over 400,000 people) campaigns for the right to work. Its collaboration group on labour market issues has focused on Arbetsfรถrmedlingen, the Swedish Public Employment Service, since autumn 2021.
Overview page of the Bundesagentur fรผr Arbeit for employers on financial support when hiring and training people with disabilities: trial employment, integration subsidy and subsidy for vocational training or further education.
Government theme page on working with a work disability, with references to the job agreement, encouraging employers, sheltered work, a checklist, and questions and answers about reintegration via UWV.
SEPE page on hiring people with disabilities: 2% reserve quota for companies with 50 or more employees, alternative compliance measures (special employment centres, donations and sponsorship, work enclaves), exceptional circumstances forms and summary table of bonuses and reductions.
Subsidy that covers documented extra costs for accommodation of a job or scheme position, up to 160,400 kr. Applied for through an agreement with NAV.
Employers can receive an integration subsidy (wage subsidy) when they hire unemployed or job-seeking people whose placement is difficult. Generally up to 50% for a maximum of 12 months; for people with disabilities and severely disabled people up to 70% for up to 24 months (for particularly affected severely disabled people longer). The application must be submitted before the employment contract is concluded.
Fleksjob is an offer for people who, due to permanent and significantly reduced work capacity, cannot obtain or maintain employment on ordinary terms. The employer pays wages for the work performed, and the municipality supplements the wages with a flex wage subsidy that compensates for the reduced work capacity.
Overview of NAV schemes for employers who hire job seekers with need for accommodation: wage subsidies, inclusion subsidies, mentor subsidies, assistive devices and accommodation, and adapted work in ordinary operations.
NAV guidance for employers on reducing sick leave and improving the work environment: follow-up of sick leave, accommodation for individual employees, follow-up from NAV employment centres and economic support schemes such as aids, mentor grants and wage subsidies.
Archive of European Disability Forum publications: position papers, reports, analyses, guides, toolkits, statements and letters to EU institutions, searchable by topic including employment, education and accessibility.