The executive decree under study, in favor of people with specific needs, will set the modalities for assigning job positions and, in addition, determine the required financial contribution, as well as the aids planned for adapting workstations. This is what National Solidarity, Family, and Women’s Condition Minister Soraya Mouloudji indicated this Friday, during an intervention before the Lower House of Parliament.
Responding to three oral questions from deputies during a plenary session at the National People’s Assembly (APN), the minister outlined the main lines of a regulatory text currently being prepared, aimed at energizing the professional integration of this category.
According to the minister, the executive decree, currently in preparation, will specify the implementation modalities of article 29 of law no. 02-09 of May 8, 2002, relating to the protection and promotion of people with specific needs, in accordance with the aforementioned provisions.
In this perspective, the new mechanism aims, according to Ms. Mouloudji’s explanations, to strengthen “the integration of people with specific needs” into a “standard, adequate, or adapted professional environment.” Among the measures she envisions is the obligation for employers to implement the necessary adaptations, with the goal of facilitating the professional exercise of these workers, in coordination with occupational health and prevention services (SPST) as well as structures specialized in technical adaptation.
The speaker also mentioned an incentive mechanism for employing organizations recruiting people with specific needs. According to her own words, employers will be able to benefit from financial aid to carry out the required adaptation work. Furthermore, “the application of the 1% rate of job positions reserved for this category will be subject to control ensured by all inspection bodies, control services, and relevant administrations,” she affirmed.
Addressing the economic integration aspect in more detail, Ms. Mouloudji indicated that her sector is working to encourage people with specific needs to engage in “income-generating” activities, to create and develop their own projects, and to venture into the field of “entrepreneurship.” In this context, she affirmed that support is provided to micro-project holders, especially in the commercialization sector, alongside the organization of continuous training to enhance their skills.
On this occasion, the minister indicated that 1,773 projects have been allocated to project holders from the category of people with specific needs by the National Microcredit Management Agency (ANGEM). She added that more than 700 people from this same category have also benefited from funding from the National Agency for Entrepreneurship Support and Development (NESDA).
On the digitization front, the minister revealed that her sector is working, in collaboration with the High Commissioner for Digitization (HCN), on setting up and developing a dedicated digital platform to “enable people with specific needs to fully participate in social life.” Ms. Mouloudji concluded her intervention by indicating that work is underway for “the digitization” of “the specific needs person’s card,” as well as of “the solidarity lump-sum allowance” (AFS).