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Although they have pledged to remove them, the Employment Service publishes ads that discriminate against people with disabilities

About six months ago, the organization promised to take action to remove the discriminatory ads in response to a request on the subject.

But alongside job ads for positions like cashier or nurse, you can find on the site the requirement "without physical or medical limitation" in dozens of ads every month.

Employment service: "Not every time it is an illegal requirement"

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Maya Horodnichano

Wednesday, December 30, 2020, 10:45 p.m.

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The employment service website publishes job advertisements that discriminate against people with disabilities, despite the fact that about five months ago the service announced that they would remove them and formulate a procedure for regulating the issue.

Various employers post job ads on the service website and among other things indicate job requirements such as previous experience, diligence and responsibility.

But a study conducted by the Clinic for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the Hebrew University, it was found that every month dozens of ads also appear with a sweeping threshold condition of the absence of a disability of any kind.

For example, it says "without medical limitations", "without physical limitation" and "without limitation", along with job ads for cashiers, packaging workers, nurses and more, regardless of job requirements.

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Advocate Ron Derech from the clinic wrote a letter to the director of the employment service, Rami Graur, in which he claimed that "the language of these demands is discriminatory, reflects and perpetuates prejudices, constitutes a significant barrier for people with disabilities who want to integrate into the labor market." And constitutes a violation of the law. "

The letter further stated that the employment service should have formulated a procedure for promoting and integrating people with disabilities into employment.

"It seems that the regulation of this procedure could have prevented the publication of the ads discussed on the site and the systematic and ongoing discrimination of people with disabilities seeking to integrate into the employment market."

In response to the request, Employment Service Ombudsman David Mashen wrote on July 23 that "the service will work to prepare a special procedure for the issue and will work harder to assimilate it among the employees.

In addition, the service will act immediately to remove the awareness that there is discrimination. "

Continued decline in employment of people with disabilities

However, even today, ads with such requirements are published, at a time when there is a decline in the employment rate of people with disabilities even before the outbreak of the corona virus.

In 2019, the employment rate of people with disabilities was 53% compared to 60% in 2018. Since the outbreak of the virus, people with disabilities have been significantly harmed.

According to a survey conducted by the Equal Rights Commission for People with Disabilities about six months ago, 65% of respondents reported that they were fired or taken on unpaid leave, or that their business activities as self-employed were discontinued.

In addition, according to the Commission, there has been a 32% increase in applications to the Commission regarding employment, compared to last year.

"The language of the requirements constitutes a violation of the law."

One of the discriminatory ads for people with disabilities

Advocate Derech, the facilitator of the Clinic for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, explained that "this type of awareness deters and excludes people with disabilities as well as people in various medical conditions, who are not disabled, between their condition and the job requirements or ability to perform it.

" The Employment Service Clinic from July and its commitment to prevent recurrence of the case and implement a procedure to prevent the rise of discriminatory awareness, we did not identify a significant change in the frequency of publication of discriminatory awareness, "he blamed. "In relation to the entire population, and given that the employment service is a public authority that is supposed to promote the integration of people with disabilities in the labor market."

The Employment Service stated in response that "it is very important for the Employment Service to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities as required by law and beyond. In light of this, a deep process of updating the rules was done so that every job ad would prevent discrimination. First, all jobs were discriminatory. There will be an automated system that blocks such wording - we will have to continue to constantly filter the jobs uploaded on the site manually.It should be noted that not every time the employer requires in the job conditions 'without physical disabilities' this is an illegal requirement, as of course there are jobs that are physical and require physical abilities. "Each position must be examined against its nature and the legitimacy of its demands, so the process is complex and repetitive. The issue is very important to us and we will continue to make every effort to prevent discrimination on the grounds of religion, age, sex and disability."

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