Reflexões sobre os direitos das pessoas com deficiência com enfoque no acesso ao mercado de trabalho

Abstract

This article proposes to discuss the inclusion of people with disabilities in the Brazilian society, focusing on the work market. In order to achieve this aim, a brief historical outline is made about the evolution of the paradigm of treatment given to people with disabilities, which went from an aberration resulting from divine punishment to the condition of an autonomous subject of rights. With this, it is intended to detach that, despite the formal recognition of rights and guarantees on an international and local scale, there is still a deficit of implementation, accentuated by social discrimination. Considering the access to work, despite the affirmative actions resulting from the approval of quota laws, there is still, on the one hand, the low level of education caused by the denial of the right to education and, on the other hand, the lack of credibility about the abilities and real conditions of people with disabilities and the lack of basic ways to facilitate accessibility. In this spectrum, the true inclusion of people with disabilities in the work market involves overcoming political, institutional, social and attitudinal barriers.