Ehlabe

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

EHLABE represents a reference model in relation with human resources management of the disabled.

The model includes a wide range of possible ways of access to the work market, which are aimed to be adequate for the working interests and support needs of disabled workers. It is about a chain of placement formulas (occupational centre, special work centre with industrial and services areas, work enclave and ordinary work), with the possibility of moving from one stage to the other or directly to the ordinary environment, according to the work skills of each individual.

The companies within EHLABE design training methods and instruments as part of the LANBIDE Orientation and Employment Service program; such methods and instruments are adapted to the learning needs and work qualifications of their employees. The main objective is to maximize the personal, social and work skills of the workers and foster their work training so as to achieve their entry to the work market.

Likewise, within Lanbide’s work placement program, EHLABE designs schemes aimed at placing disabled people in the common work market. Human resources units, which are formed by researchers of employment opportunities and job coaches who provide training for the work post, are backed by an integral labour accompanying methodology for both the employer and the disabled employee, helping the latter through all the aspects of his/her adaptation to the working environment: search for opportunities, training for the post and subsequent long-term follow-up.

The formulas that make this scheme effective are two:

• Work enclaves in ordinary companies: it is about disabled staff hired by EHLABE entities which provides a service previously agreed between both companies. This system allows for employers to better determine the abilities of the disabled person, thus facilitating the success of the transition to the company that receives the work enclave.
• Direct additions to the payroll of ordinary companies with the support structure provided by EHLABE entities. The payroll inclusions performed within the LANBIDE Basque Employment Service framework are entitled to co-financing by the European Social Fund through the BAC’s Operative Program 2007-2013.