Helsinki
26.09.2011
Meeting the psycho-social challenges of return-to-work:
Younger adults after a long sick-leave
Activation and employment instruments of the
German Social Code Book IX (SGB IX)
Introduction
• Definition of disability
disabled people
severely disabled people
• Definition of abilitiy to work
at least three hours a day
three to six hours a day
Challenge
• Unemployment in 2010
3.24 Mio (7.7 %)
about 177,000 (5.9 %) are severely disabled
• Severly people able to work at the labour
market
about 1 Million
• Disabled people in sheltered workshops
Nearly 250,000 with increasing tendency
Seminar “Meeting the psycho.-social challenges of return-to-work: Younger adults after a long sick-leave”
(Arranged by RIFI/DVfR and Rehabilitation Foundation)
Helsinki 26.09.2011
Employment Integration by SGB IX
• Some particular objectives in SGB IX
„Rehabilitation has priortiy over each kind of benefit
in cash“
„ The principle of intervention at the earliest possible
stage“
Employment Integration by SGB IX
• A range of activation and employment instruments
Common Service Units
quota system
equalization charge
Integration offices
Services for special needs
Gradual reintegration into working life
Personal workplace assistance
• A range of activation and employment instruments
Employers„ responsibilities
o Prevention
o Company Integration Mangement
o preferably free job„s for severely applicant
special termination protection
financial asstistance
Integrative Companies
special campaigns and job programs
Thank you for your attention