The Equal Opportunities Unit
The Equal Opportunities Unit
The Equal Opportunities Department provides logistical support to the Equal Opportunities Committee (EOC), as well as follows up on, receives and verifies decisions and recommendations and the reports that are issued by the EOC. The department also coordinates and networks with both the Vocational Training Corporation and the Ministry of Labour so as to ensure that their respective policies, strategies, plans, programmes and services are inclusive of measures that mainstream the access requirements of persons with disabilities, on an equal basis as others, including the provision of the curricula and training material in accessible formats. This guarantees that persons with disabilities are not excluded from any training programme pertaining to any vocation.
The department also works to train the Ministry of Labour’s inspectors on attaining the employment percentage stipulated for in the Law, as well as monitoring governmental and non-governmental entities in their efforts to provide reasonable accommodations that enable persons with disabilities to carry out job tasks and employment requirements, as well as access promotion opportunities.