Labor’s jobs plan for people with disability will provide more work opportunities, Jenny Macklin said during a visit to The Intellectual Disability Foundation of St George.
Ms Macklin, the Opposition’s spokeswoman for Disability Reform, was accompanied by Barton candidate Linda Burney and state MPs Steve Kamper (Rockdale) and Sophie Cotsis (upper house).
Ms Macklin said Labor’s policy would see better integration of disability job plans by organisations working in the sector.
Incentives would be boosted for non government organisations and private businesses to employ people with disability.
Ms Macklin said there would be a trial of reforms aimed at providing more choice and control, and to ensure more people with disability could work in the public service.
Ms Macklin said Labor would support businesses and not-for-profit organisations to develop their own plans.
This would allow them to identify existing barriers to employment, improve recruitment policies and procedures and outline specific strategies and targets.
Ms Burney said the plan would see people with disability more able than ever to engage with the workforce.
“It isn’t just about economic productivity, but about allowing people with disability to gain the gain the self-confidence and self-worth that comes with it,” she said.
“Organisations like The St George Intellectual Disability Foundation here in Barton are achieving fantastic results,” she said.
“We want to support them in doing that and to see those results replicated at businesses around the electorate.”
