Over the past four years, the Government has taken a lot of steps in the spirit of creating a society based on work in which everyone, who’s able to work could find the right job and form of employment fitting his or her own capabilities – said Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics at a press conference held in Veszprém today.

In relation to an employment conference dealing with the change in rehabilitation and employment of people with altered working abilities, the Deputy Prime Minister said that in the previous years, the way of “not living from work rather on benefits” increasingly prevailed in Hungary.

He added that the largest possible number of people who are capable to work must be kept in the labour world and those who are excluded should be aided in getting back. It is especially important to help those for who it is involuntarily more difficult to work, because of innate incapability or deterioration of health conditions and their everyday life is far more difficult and the obstacles they face when dealing with affairs is not known by the majority.

Tibor Navracsics also spoke at the press conference about the steps that have been taken in public administration for the disabled. The main objective of the transformation of the public administration was that it should become more people-oriented and when a citizen meets any authority, agency, or ownership of administration during public administrative proceedings, the administrators should be sensitive to the problem of individuals.

By creating one-stop-shops it was taken into consideration that disabled people should be able to use the services of these institutions. Leading rows were developed for blind people and at the information tables loud maps help their orientation. The steering box is available on all computers for people with hearing disabilities through which the agent and the client both could take the help of an interpreter and for physically disabled people the Government made all one-stop-shops accessible.

Tibor Navracsics also said that so-called “sensitization courses” form part of the curriculum of the National University of Public Service that with completing these, public sector workers could gain practical experience on the problems of people with disabilities.

The Government supported the employment of disabled people with 35 billion HUF in 2013. By broadening the employment support system, currently 324 employers employ more than 30,000 people with reduced capabilities in supported employment. The Rehabilitation Card did open the labour market for another 20,000 people with reduced work capacity and between 2010 and 2013, the number of employed people with altered working abilities have risen from 43,000 to 60,000.

(Minister of Public Administration and Justice)