Despite the 4876 crisis COCEMFE get jobs for people with disabilities.

● COCEMFE has obtained from the Education Integration Services (SIL) in this year
4876 jobs for people with disabilities.

● The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is 40% higher than that of people without disabilities.

● Among the areas where work is offered mainly the services sector (Hospitality Industry and Trade) and a lesser proportion in the areas of Construction and Industry.


The Spanish Confederation of Persons with Physical Disability and Organic (COCEMFE) has succeeded this year in the employment of about 5,000 people in the group despite the economic crisis affecting Spanish society.

Through the Integration of Workforce Services (Sil) from COCEMFE, entrepreneurs have a large database of workers from different professions, as well as adequate training, business support in the process of incorporation of workers and information and advice on grants and support to employment or job creation.

At this time, according to the report of the labor market for people with disabilities, in March 2008, almost 2 / 3 of job applicants with disabilities (62.3%) are unemployed. Another very telling is that while the activity rate in the world without disabilities is 59.95% in the case of disability is 33.7%. On the difficulties of the labor of disabled people in Spain, we can illustrate that:
- While in Europe, 24% of people with severe disabilities are active, we are in Spain at 13%.
- Of this figure 20.5% in Europe are women, while in Spain are only 9%.
- In Europe are active in 46% of people with moderate disability and Spain are only 28.7%.
Therefore, from COCEMFE is tackling this problem from two aspects. On the one hand, promoting the training of people in the group and the other to inform employers of the advantages of hiring workers with disabilities.

In this sense, Julian Palomo, head of the Department of Training and Employment COCEMFE notes that "the crisis at the moment all European countries, in Spain (according to the latest data from the EPA) is especially acute in the employment is concerned. In the past year unemployment has grown by 806,900 people. These figures have an impact especially in the group with which we work, particularly a group excluded from the working world, which makes it even more difficult job.
Without going into the coldness of the figures and talking on the daily experience of our developers work, we find that the difficulties of the companies makes it generally retracted its offer of employment and most of those responsible for HR before visits our technicians will respond with a "wait for better times."
One of the problems the group and which is actively working COCEMFE is the training of workers. That is why COCEMFE has handled so far this year nearly 14,000 job vacancies in the services sector (80%), Construction and Industry (both sectors at rates close to 8%), among others, but has not been achieved the insertion of workers due to lack of training.

According to the latest report of the Group Sifu, over 60% of Spanish companies breached the Act on Integration of Disabled People (LISMI) despite being aware of it. It therefore believes that "to enhance the employability of disabled people should act in the line is already in the Global Employment Plan submitted by the CERMI and recent approval by the Government, with emphasis on:

A) ensure compliance with the Act with greater monitoring of its implementation in large companies.
b) Give greater support to SMEs (which are the companies that hire people with disabilities) to strengthen and enhance the work already being done.
c) Increase training for jobseekers with skills commensurate with labor market demand.
d) Support initiatives of the entrepreneurs before the crisis to avoid that line of job creation is destroyed. "

COCEMFE, Spanish Confederation of People with Disabilities and Physical Organic, is a non-governmental non-profit was formed in 1980. Its aim is unite, strengthen, train and coordinate the efforts and activities of the organizations working on behalf of people with physical and functional to defend their rights and improve their quality of life.
The body brings together more than 1,500 organizations are divided into autonomous confederations, national and provincial federations, which in turn, bring together the various local associations.