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5.10.2017 Career opportunities for people with partial work ability 1

Career

opportunities

for people with

partial work ability

Partial work ability is individual

• Persons with partial work ability have lost

some of their work ability temporarily or

permanently.

• There are many kinds of partial work

ability.

• Partial work ability is closely linked with the

cause of the impaired work capacity and

the demands of work.

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Partial work ability affects almost every Finn during their work career


It has been estimated that

1.9 million Finns of working

age have some type of

disability or chronic disease.

Of these, 600,000 Finns

estimate that the disability

or disease affects their work

and work opportunities.

Too often disabilities or

chronic diseases prevent

people from entering or

re-entering working life.


Objective:

People with partial

ability for work will

remain at work or find

employment on the

open labour market.

Examples of our reform goals

• Partial work ability no longer leads to permanent exclusion from working

life, and it is possible to return to work.

• Service chains are timely and well-functioning, there are less overlapping

activities and people get the help they need.

• The range of tools available in the service system for people with partial work

ability are employed efficiently and effectively.

• Attitudes and prejudices towards people with partial work ability have

changed for the better.


Examples of our reform goals

• There are tools in place to increase the opportunities of people who are at

risk of exclusion from the labour market and people who are outside

working life to make their own contribution to society.

• There are less incentive traps.

• People have effective right to work and social inclusion.

• The number of employed people has risen.

• The costs of partial work capacity have fallen.

• The costs of unemployment and absence from work have fallen.


Subprojects of the OTE key project


1. Recommendations

from the programme

for persons with


5. Demand-side factors

related to

employment of

people with

disabilities

2. Training for work

ability coordinators

6. Online service

3. Entrepreneurship for

people with

disabilities

7. Paths of treatment

and rehabilitation

and early support

4. Models for

employment and

social inclusion

8. Incentive traps

Benefits of the OTE key project


Employers

• benefit from increased

labour supply

• adopt good and tested

ways to keep persons

with partial work capacity

at work

• have a lower threshold for

recruiting persons with

partial work capacity

• become less sceptical

about employing persons

with partial work capacity.

People with partial work

ability

• have easier access to

paid employment and

entrepreneurship

• get the support they need

to find work, return to

work and remain at work

• can improve their income

• become more equal and

involved, which improves

their well-being.

System

• the service system

functions effectively

and in a client-oriented

manner

• cooperation between

different operators gives

good results and saves

resources

• costs of exclusion from

working life decrease

• inequality decreases


Project 1: Recommendations from the programme for persons with partial work ability

The key project is based on the

recommendations from the

programme for persons with


(2013–2015).

The recommendations will be

implemented as part of the

OTE key project’s subprojects.


Project 2:

Training for work ability coordinators

Project 2: Training for work ability coordinators

• The goal is that partial work ability or a disability or an illness does not lead to

exclusion from working life or prevent employment.

• To achieve this goal there have to be changes in services and at workplaces.

• These changes can be achieved by recognising in services and at workplaces the

skills of the professionals specialised in work ability.

• Work ability coordinators should be appointed to workplaces and services for

person with partial work ability as widely as possible.

• Work ability coordinators are trained professionals.

• They help their clients by coordinating services, taking responsibility, finding

tailored solutions together with them, supporting and guiding them, and being with

them all the way until the issues are resolved.


Content of training for work capacity coordinators

• The training is a process where the participants get efficient tools to reform their own

work and their cooperation and interaction with others.

• The training gives the participants up-to-date information and skills and keys to the

solution-oriented approach.

• Appreciative, encouraging, goal-oriented and solution-oriented approach to work is

the common thread in the training.

• The training gives the participants tools to build new kinds of cooperation in their

organisation, in their networking and in working with their clients.

• Training for work ability coordinators will be available in all regions.

• Training will also be organised for managers and employers.


Project 2: Training for work capacity coordinators



All the key

project

experiment

areas get

involved

Training participants complete a development task and report on the changes achieved. What changed in their work and

collaboration?

Training impact assessment, skills assessment, best new practices introduced in practice

Managers at the

first training

event

Operators in the

work ability

coordinator’s

cooperation

network

25–60

professionals

per county

1–2 trainings

per county

Training

available in all

counties

Rehabilitation

Training

Employment services

Healthcare and social

services

Social protection

Measures at workplace

Third sector

Operational concept of the key project:

all available tools will be used


• Accessibility

• Workplace arrangements

• Work community

• Work arrangements

• Safety at work

• Occupational healthcare

• Primary healthcare

• Specialised medical care

• Social services

• Medical rehabilitation

• Vocational rehabilitation

• Social rehabilitation

• Partial sickness allowance

• Partial disability pension

• Leaving a pension dormant

• Disability allowance

• Rehabilitation allowance

• Reimbursement for rehabilitation

costs

• Allowances for voluntary adult

studies

• Employment services

• Job search and career coaching

• Work and training trials

• Labour market training

• Wage subsidy

• Start-up funding

• Subsidy for arranging working

conditions

• Travel cost compensation

• Career planning

• Job coaching

• Vocational upper secondary

education and training leads to

a qualification

• Labour market training

• Job coach

• Vocational rehabilitation

• Training trial

• Apprenticeship training

• Other forms of training at

workplaces

• Work trial

Third sector



Training area 3

Rovaniemi / Lapland

Training area 7

Kuusamo / Koilismaa

Training area 6

Kajaani / Kainuu

Training area 15

Kuopio / Ylä-Savo Training area 2

Joensuu / North Karelia

Training area 14

Lappeenranta / South Karelia

Training area 5

Mikkeli / Etelä-Savo

Training area 8

Turku / Southwest Finland

Training area 12

Hämeenlinna / Kanta-Häme

Training area A

Hämeenlinna / Experiment area

Training area 13

Tampere / Pirkanmaa

Training area B Pirkka-Sata

Tampere / Experiment area

Training area 1

Oulu / North Ostrobothnia

Training area 11

Seinäjoki / South Ostrobothnia

Training area 9

Vaasa / Ostrobothnia

Training area 4

Jyväskylä / Central Finland Training area C Kokkola-Oulu

Kokkola / Experiment area

Up-to-date Information about the training:

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Project 3:

Entrepreneurship for people with disabilities

Project 3: Entrepreneurship for people with disabilities

• The aim is to have more people with disabilities and people with partial

work ability as entrepreneurs.

• The first phase of the project included a survey on people with disabilities

as entrepreneurs and their support. More information is still needed on the

number of entrepreneurs with disabilities and the potential to increase that

number.

• Based on the survey results, concrete measures will be planned and carried

out to encourage people with disabilities or partial work ability to become

entrepreneurs and to remove barriers to their entrepreneurship.



Project 4: Models for employment and social inclusion

Project 4: Models for employment and social inclusion

• The aim is to reform the models and culture in services for people with partial work ability so that they would better support the employment and inclusion of people with partial work ability.

• More efficient operating models will be introduced in regional experiments:

• Path from exemplary employment to work

• Path from studies to work

• Activities that support inclusion

• Legislation will also be reformed to

support the employment and

inclusion of people with partial ability

for work.

• As a result, people with partial work

ability will have better access to

services they need and an

increasing number of people with

partial work ability will make

progress on their path to work.

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Experiment areas


Lappeenranta

Yhdessä hyvä Ote

Vaalijala

Savon Ote

Järvenpää

Fokus

Pori

Sataosaa

Lahti

Pähee Ote

Kokkola

KP Ote


Project 5: Demand-side factors related to employment of people with disabilities

Project 5: Demand-side factors related to employment of people with disabilities

• The aim is that an increasing number of people with partial work ability will

be employed and that an increasing number of companies employ persons

with partial work ability.

• The first phase of the project included a research project.

• Once the research is completed, its outcomes and possible proposals for

measures will be discussed together with NGOs, including disability and patient

organisations.

• Measures to lower the threshold to recruit people with partial work ability

will be implemented based on the discussions and the researchers’

proposals. Employers will also be provided with information and examples

of well-functioning solutions and models in the form of regional training, for

example.



Project 6: Online service

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Project 7: Paths of treatment and rehabilitation and early support

Project 7: Paths of treatment and rehabilitation and early support

• The aim is to organise treatment and rehabilitation for people with partial

work ability through a seamless, client-oriented, timely and appropriate

operating model for service chains.

• This operating model will be developed as part of regional experiments.

• As a result, people with partial work ability in or outside working life will

have faster and more flexible access to the treatment and rehabilitation they

need. Early interventions to support work ability will be started at the right

time. Multi-professional cooperation to support work ability will function

efficiently.


Experiment areas


Central Finland

Kainuu

Pori

Oulu

Pirkanmaa

Kiipula/

Uusimaa


Project 8: Incentive traps

Project 8: Incentive traps

• The aim is to reduce incentive traps related to disability pension and earned

income.

• A tripartite working group studied the alternatives for reducing incentive

traps related to disability pension and earned income.

• In its final report the working group proposed a linear model for combining partial

disability pension and earned income.

• The working group also proposed further studies on introducing the linear model

even for the full disability pension.

• The report will be sent out for comment in autumn 2017.

• Decisions on further actions.

• The reform could be implemented as of the beginning of 2021, at the earliest.


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