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Możliwości zatrudnienia osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną – opinie pracodawców
Employment opportunities for persons with intellectual disabilities – employers' opinions

Author(s): Karolina Pawłowska-Cyprysiak, Katarzyna Hildt-Ciupińska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
Keywords: intellectual disability: employment: employers’ opinions

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present employers' opinions towards employing people with intellectual disabilities. The possibility of employment is a chance to develop and possibility to limit the social isolation of this group. However the chance for such activity for the people of intellectual disability is low from the point of view of workers of poviat labor offices. Low level of education is the main reason for not employing people with intellectual disability. The vast majority of this group have only primary education, and only a small part has special vocational education. Despite the fact that people have a positive attitude to the professional activity of people with intellectual disability, they are not willing to employ it in their own enterprises. The aim of the questionnaire research conducted at CIOP-PIB in 2020 was to show the opinion about people with intellectual disability as workers and employers opinions toward about employment of this group. The article presents the results of these studies.

  • Issue Year: 598/2021
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 10-13
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish