Employment services for people with disabilities and how to register

By contacting the nearest Employment Agency Job Centre, the disabled and disadvantaged person can benefit from one or more of the following targeted support services in the search for work:

• Reception and information
  At the Employment Centre the person is welcomed and can receive useful information regarding
  - the activities and types of employment policy interventions
  - employment opportunities in the private and public sectors
  - training paths
  - labour relations regulations

• Guidance counselling
  In order to support the person during the job search phase, in relation to the hypothesised project and on the basis of their work profile, specialised operators from the Job Centres carry out interviews, with the aim of reconstructing their personal and professional history, analysing any problems that may affect the definition of a work project, and investigating job search strategies. The operator decides and agrees with the person on the quantity and duration of the interviews.

  For more complex situations, a network is promoted with the territorial Social and Health Services in order to activate customised interventions which, by integrating the information gathered by the various Services, can contribute to the knowledge of your potential and resources that can be used to enter the world of work.

• Apprenticeship opportunities
  The specialised operator of the Job Centre, based on your needs and characteristics, can propose a targeted internship experience, through which the person can gain practical experience within a company organisation.
  
• Job offer-demand matching
  The job offer-demand matching service is offered to people with disabilities who, on the basis of their work ability, autonomy in seeking employment, also following assessment by the special Commission, are considered capable of accessing this service (job placement targeted profile without support interventions).
  At the Job Centres it is possible to obtain information on the companies discovered to which you can apply.

• Socially useful work
  In order to facilitate the insertion of weak individuals into the world of work, as well as to promote the social and work rehabilitation of individuals in socially disadvantaged situations, Agenzia del Lavoro supports the activation of socially useful initiatives promoted by Local Authorities and IPABs. Specific information for these types of users can be found in the Job Centres and the relevant applications can be submitted.
  
• Specific training initiatives
  At the Job Centre it is possible to obtain information on available training opportunities and to enrol in them.

Remember!

• Among the services offered, the disabled person also has the possibility of consulting online the Employers' Information Prospectuses - L.68/1999.
  Public and private employers subject to L.68/1999 are required to declare their employment situation and any shortfalls in relation to the recruitment obligations under L.68/1999 by sending the 'Informative Prospectus'.

  The person can consult the L. 68/1999 Informative Prospectus online through the online consultation system of the summary table of the Informative Prospectuses shown among the Attached Documents, which allows compliance with the principle of publicity laid down by L. 68/99, art. 9, c. 6: the situation reported reflects what has been declared by the employers as at 31 December of the previous year.

  When consulting the table online, it should be borne in mind that:

  - the situation reported reflects what was declared by the employers as at 31 December of the previous year, and is therefore not updated with the changes that occurred during the current year; e.g., on the occasion of recruitments, terminations, exemption authorisations, territorial offsets, transfers of activities, changes in the quota obligation, Programme Agreements or Agreements pursuant to Article 14 of Legislative Decree 276/2003 entered into, etc.

  - as from 2010, employers who have not undergone any changes affecting the calculation of the reserve quota are not required to send a new Information Prospectus each year; for this reason, therefore, some employers, although subject to the obligation under Law 68/1999, are not listed; the list of Information Prospectuses may include companies that have ceased to exist or employers who have ceased to comply with the obligation during the current year or who have suspended their obligations

  - for technical reasons, some information contained in the original prospectus is not included;

  On this page, among the attachments, you can consult the summary table of the prospectuses.

In order to register on the provincial list of persons with disabilities, it is necessary to

• be of working age
• be without employment;
• be immediately available for work in accordance with one's abilities and skills;
• if a non-EU citizen: be in possession of a valid residence permit/residence card.

Persons protected by Law 68/1999, i.e:

• persons with a civil invalidity report of more than 45% up to 100% (in this case with expressed work potential);
• work invalids with a disability of more than 33%, and recognised under T. U. 1124/1965;
• totally blind or with a visual residue of no more than one tenth in both eyes;
• deaf from birth or before learning the spoken language;
• war invalids, civil war invalids, service invalids, with impairments from 1st to 8th category
• persons in the conditions referred to in Article 1(1) of Law No. 222 of 1984 (Revision of the rules governing pensionable invalidity) which states that "an insured person whose capacity to work in occupations suited to his abilities is permanently reduced by less than one third due to infirmity, physical or mental defect, shall be considered an invalid for the purposes of obtaining the right to an allowance under the compulsory insurance for invalidity, old age and survivors of employees and self-employed workers managed by INPS".

To access job search services, the person with a disability must follow these steps

1. register on the provincial list of persons with disabilities
   To register on the provincial list of people with disabilities, it is necessary to:
   1. go to the Employment Centre in your area of residence with your disability record;
   2. present the application for registration and the relative declaration of immediate availability for work.
   

2. conduct an interview at the Job Centre
   After submitting the application for registration, the disabled person will be invited to an initial interview with the reference operator for targeted employment at the Job Centre in order to investigate his/her previous and current employment, training and personal situation.

   The interview is important to gather information on the person's potential, work skills and aspirations, in order to draw up a report that will be forwarded to the Integrated Health Commission for the final report containing indications for job placement.

   If the person is also followed by the local social worker, the first interview will be carried out by the Job Centre operator together with the social worker.

   Afterwards, the person will be summoned to the O.U. which, after the visit, will draw up a final report, containing the type of job placement considered most suitable for the person's situation (Targeted placement without support interventions; Targeted placement with the support of a mediation service; Targeted placement with the support of a mediation service and with the use of technical tools; Training pathway preparatory to targeted placement; Pathway for the mentally disabled: job placement with a nominative request through conventions (art.11, Law no. 68/1999); Not employable; Pathway for complex socio-medical situations).
   
   In the meantime, the person may seek employment: in this section some useful tools.

3. Agreeing on a targeted employment project
   Once the final report has been received, the person may again contact the reference operator of the Job Centre to agree on a job placement project, services and identify a suitable work placement.

The documentation required for the first registration on the provincial list of the disabled is as follows

• if civil invalid, civil blind or deaf-mute: Photocopy of the civil invalidity report (with the diagnostic data omitted but indicating the percentage of invalidity, work potential and type of disability), civil blindness, deaf-mute issued by the competent ASL with a percentage from 46% to 100% (in the case of 100% invalidity, the work potential must be expressed and must not be "almost abolished and/or kept only for non�profitable activities"). In the case of civilly blind and deaf and dumb persons, reports are not taken into account in terms of expiry unless expressly provided for in the report;
• if disabled for work: Declaration in lieu of affidavit
• ifdisabled for service: Declaration in lieu of affidavit.