2023-11-17 06:00:17
It was one day in February 2016, at the office: ” Everything happened really fast. My colleagues saw that my mouth was deforming, fortunately I was quickly taken care of. » Employed since 2012 by RTE, the company managing the electricity transmission network (9,500 employees), Frédérique Manceau suffered a stroke that day, which caused her to lose her hearing on her right side. , speech and part of his motor skills. “I had to relearn how to live at 45”she remembers.
After several months off, she was able to regain some of her senses. Unfortunately, his return was a ” hell “. “I felt extremely tired, I was suffocated by the noise of colleagues in the open space, so I had to concentrate doubly… The occupational doctor noticed this, he declared me unfit for my job , she says. He told me to apply for recognition of disability, but I didn’t feel disabled, I felt capable. I feared the looks of others, I was in denial. »
As European Disability Employment Week looms, from November 20 to 26, the most virtuous companies are scrambling to highlight their rate of employment of people with disabilities. Indeed, any employer with more than twenty employees must have 6% of disabled employees in its workforce, otherwise it must pay a financial contribution to the Association for managing the fund for the professional integration of disabled people (Agefiph).
Strong resistance
This objective is still rarely achieved: only 29% of the 111,300 companies concerned have fully fulfilled this obligation through direct employment in 2022, the Ministry of Labor published Thursday, November 15. The direct employment rate is on average 3.5%, a figure which is stagnating. To make progress, companies have other solutions than recruiting disabled people, such as encouraging their teams to have a disability recognized, by means of a procedure for recognizing the status of disabled worker. But human resources teams encounter strong resistance, because the majority of potentially affected employees fear a form of stigmatization. 2.9 million workers benefit from this administrative recognition in 2021.
At RTE, the employment rate of disabled workers was 5.47% in 2022. “In 2023, out of 400 recruitments, we will have 11 people with disabilities. We work with specialized companies to diversify our profiles, but for executive positions it is sometimes difficultrecognizes Angélique Carbonnelle, head of the diversity mission. We therefore try to favor the continued employment of all employees, with the support of occupational health. »
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