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Short description

The revised Code of Social Law (Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB)) that went into effect in mid 2004 requires employers to implement an integration management program for personnel that are work disabled for an aggregate total of more than six weeks within a calendar year (Article 82(2) SGB IX).

One of the statute’s aims is to promote the implementation of specific measures for the reintegration of handicapped workers and workers that have participated in occupational rehabilitation programs. Integration management is also meant to be a strategy for the prevention of recurring and chronic illnesses and handicaps so as to provide long term job security for workers that are at risk of becoming unemployed. 

Aims

The program aims to help businesses and training providers to implement the relevant provisions of the Code of Social Law (Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB)). The project’s specific goals are as follows:

• The project seeks to promote preventive measures in enterprises. This means creating a business culture that is conducive to the successful implementation of health and integration management that can also be readily realized in SMEs and that enables companies to implement the relevant preventive measures. We plan to elaborate guidelines for these measures that SMEs can use as a basis for implementation.
• Another goal of the project is to promote the placement of physically and mentally handicapped workers in positions that are suitable for their abilities by providing businesses with information regarding support measures for such workers, and by giving presentations on transferable examples of good practice.
• The establishment of a regional occupational training network, in tandem with the elaboration and piloting of modern and apposite human resource measures for handicapped workers, will help these workers achieve long term employability in the mainstream job market.
• Supporting continuous human resource development for mentally handicapped workers through the establishment of a list of regional facilitators that will be available to businesses online at www.kompetenzplus.de. This resource will enable businesses and public authorities to realize their own internal or external training sessions, or human resource measures, for their handicapped workers.

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Promoters

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  Zentrum Bayern Familie und Soziales ─ Integrationsamt