Shared result: Increase employment and economic opportunities

 This result also recognises obligations in the CRPD, particularly Articles 24 and 27.

1. Priority: Increase the number of disabled people who transition from school and from tertiary education into employment

a) Improve transitions. Lead: Ministry of Education.

2. Priority: Increase the number of disabled people, including long-term unemployed disabled people, in paid employment and self-employment on an equal basis with others

a) Implement a long term work programme to improve employment outcomes for disabled people including the development of guidelines on reasonable accommodation. Lead: Ministry of Social Development.

b) Building on work in action 2(a), identify better alternatives so that the minimum wage exemption process can be removed. Lead: Ministry of Social Development and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

3. Priority: Increase the number of employers who are confident in employing disabled people, with the public sector taking a lead

a) Government to take a lead in employing disabled people and providing paid internships. Lead: Ministry of Social Development.

b) Work with private sector partners to progress employment of disabled people in the private sector. Lead: Ministry of Social Development.