Israel Institute for Occupational Safety and Hygiene
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Integration of disabled people at work in practice
In the last years there is an upward trend of awareness of the mutual benefit from absorbing
disabled people in workplaces. As a result, there is a growing need of developing tools for
assistance in their good and safe absorption in the workplaces.
In order to enhance this important integration and help removing the obstacles that clouded
the desired absorption, the government and the National Insurance Institute took three
major steps as following:
1. Following the recommendation of the Judge Laron’s committee dated 1.8.09, the 109
amendment to the national insurance law (‘The Laron Amendment’). This amendment
removed part of the obstacles from the national insurance law, which were effective
before the legislation of the 109 amendment. These obstacles disturbed the disabled
people who wished to work and increase their incomes.
This amendment created a new situation, whereas in the past - a disabled individual
who received the disability pension would have lost it if he was working and earning a
few NIS beyond his pension, now, after the amendment became valid, he may continue
receiving his pension when his entire income both from the pension and from his work
is higher than the disability pension alone.
2. The Ministry of Economy - center for the integration of people with disabilities in the labor
market, worked and established, in October 2007, a committee that will recommend
the change and update of regulations on this issue. This committee acts, with the
assistance of the government and the employers, for funding the modification of work
environment for the disabled employees. The committee ends its work these days and
soon its recommendations for updating the regulations will be sent to the Knesset for
approval and operation.
3. TheManof fund of the National Insurance Institute for financing operations for prevention
of work accidents enlisted for financing, producing and publishing the education booklet
for the employers and for the managers, concerning all aspects of the health and safety
of disabled people in their workplaces.
The employers’ social responsibility
Social responsibility is a tern that characterizes welfare states, and it replaces, to a certain
extent, an older term - mutual responsibility.
By definition, social responsibility refers to a principal position beyond the basic obedience to
the laws. Social responsibility refers to everything that should be done and is consideredmoral.
Nowadays, it is customary worldwide to evaluate businesses by means of a scale that examines
