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Report: " Employment and Disability: Back to work strategies" (2004)

By Richard Wynne, Work Research Centre and Donal MacAnaney, REHAB Group .

Published by the European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin.

This report, based on a study of policies and practices in seven EU member states addresses the issue of how people with chronic illnesses and disabilities become excluded from the workplace - and strategies for job retention and-integration.

Document's Table of Contents
Section Page
Introduction  
Overview of the study  
Some key issues 3
1 - Policy and statistical background 5
Overview 5
Nature of the problem 7
Long-term absence and exclusion 8
Responses to illness and exclusion 9
Responses to illness and exclusion 12
Policy context 14
2 - Process of social exclusion through illness 21
Pathways to social exclusion 21
Modelling job maintenance and return to work 22
Disability: a dynamic interaction between person and environment 23
Threshold model 25
Disability management model 27
Disability management model 28
3 - New initiatives in retaining jobs and return to work 31
Introduction 31
Selecting company initiatives 31
Dimensions of good practice 32
Company level initiatives 34
Sectoral and other group initiatives 38
Conclusions 46
4 - Analysing national approaches to illness and disability 47
Aims of the tool 47
Dimensions of the tool 49
5 - Policies and initiatives in Finland 53
Context 53
Social protection 53
Workplace health management 54
Anti-discrimination legislation 54
Anti-discrimination legislation 55
System profile 55
Summary and conclusions 56
6 - Policies and initiatives in Germany 59
Context 59
Social protection 59
Workplace health management 60
Rehabilitation and reintegration 60
Disability legislation 61
System profile 62
Summary and conclusions 63
7 - Policies and initiatives in Ireland 65
Context 65
Social protection 65
Workplace health management 66
Rehabilitation and reintegration 67
Anti-discrimination legislation 68
Disability provision 68
Summary and conclusions 68
Summary and conclusions 69
8 - Policies and initiatives in Italy 71
Context 71
Social protection 71
Workplace health management 72
Rehabilitation and reintegrationSystem profile 72
Anti-discrimination legislation 73
System profile 73
Summary and conclusions 74
9 - Policies and initiatives in the Netherlands 77
Context 77
Social protection 77
Workplace health management 78
Rehabilitation and reintegration 78
System profile 79
Summary and conclusions 79
10 - Policies and initiatives in Sweden 81
Context 81
Social protection 81
Workplace health management 82
Rehabilitation and reintegration 82
Anti-discrimination legislation 83
Disability legislation 83
System profile 83
Summary and conclusions 84
11 - Policies and initiatives in the UK 87
Context 87
Social protection 87
Workplace health management 88
Rehabilitation and reintegration 89
Anti-discrimination legislation 90
System profile 90
Summary and conclusions 91
12 - Conclusions from the project 93
Introduction 93
Informing the analysis of national systems 93
Main themes emerging from the analysis 94
Conclusions 96
Recommendations 99
First steps in implementing change 103
References 105
Appendix: National legislative measures 111

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