Human Rights & Employment

3. Employment

The three essential pillars of the right to work:

Availability. States must ensure the existence of tailored services to help people to identify employment opportunities and find work.
Accessibility. Access to work involves three key elements: non-discrimination, physical accessibility and information accessibility. Discrimination in access to and continuation of employment is prohibited. States must ensure that reasonable accommodation is made so that work places are physically accessible, particularly for persons with physical disabilities. Everyone has the right to seek, obtain and impart information on employment opportunities.
Acceptability and quality. The right to work comprises of several interrelated components, including the right to choose and accept work freely, just and favourable conditions of work, safe working conditions, and the right to form trade unions.

Summary

In this section, we have focused on the value of employment, the theoretical approach to employment and the various types of employment.

In the next section, we will focus on employment as an important human right for people with disability.

ACTIVITY

Think of five things that a person gains from his/her work.