Recent amendments to the law, effected without consultation with the social partners, contain shortcomings which will not help to get more disabled persons into employment, the Malta Employers’ Association said in a statement yesterday.

The association welcomed the government’s effort to get as many willing persons into productive employment as possible. But it claimed that the Employment and Training Corporation seemed more intent on collecting obligatory contributions from employers, “to be paid into the Lino Spiteri Foundation rather than creating job opportunities for disabled persons willing to work”.

The association also said that the public sector should take the lead to fulfil its obligations in respect of the quota of persons with disability within it workforce, as many private sector companies already did.

“The public sector falls notoriously short of the quota,” the MEA said.

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