Inclusion of professionals with disabilities in the workplace: Challenges for the human resources management

Abstract

This article discusses the issue of diversity in the labor context from a review of the literature on the topic and from an empirical study about the inclusion of professionals with disabilities in the labor market. This research was intended to find out about the difficulties faced by professionals with disabilities in the process of searching for a job vacancy, as well as by employers. Results have shown that both professionals with disabilities and organizations experience difficulties during this process of inclusion, consequently, Law 8.231/91 (the Quotas Act) has been partially observed by many of the companies surveyed, and the Human Resources department becomes responsible for creating practical alternatives to address the challenges this Law imposes to organizations and, irrespective of said Law, to enforce the basic right of these professionals that is social inclusion, starting with access to the workplace.