Tedious inclusion of employees with disabilities in hotel-restoration

The adaptation of trades and the integration of employees with disabilities is progressing slowly in this sector with difficult working conditions.

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The reflection in Nantes, the happy cafes in Rennes then in Paris, or the beautiful Sparkle, inaugurated in Paris in June 2021 by Sophie Cluzel the Secretary of State for the disabled … The examples of small establishments employing in majority of cooks and servers suffering from cognitive deficiencies, autism spectrum disorders or trisomy 21 multiply, and their success makes it possible to deconstruct some prejudices.

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth week for the use of persons with disabilities, which was to open on Monday, November 15, the Ministry of Labor published on November 10 its last assessment which indicates that the direct employment rate in full-time equivalent in the undertakings subject to the obligation of employment is 3.6% in the Hotel-restoration, trade and transportation in 2019, compared with 3.5% national average.

More and more employers open their recruitment to disabled workers. More than one in four (27%) beneficiaries of the employment obligation of persons with disabilities works in the hotel-restoration, trade or transportation. But the work “in ordinary environment” is complicated to generalize.

A lot of self-censorship

Prejudice on disability are particularly pregnant in a sector of deemed difficult working conditions. “The restoration is a pressurized craft, and it is often believed that the disabled are more easily tireful, but it is nothing,” says Stéphanie Roland-Gosselin, President of the Association Access, who accompanies the young employees of the Beautiful Sparkle.

“There are also a lot of self-censorship, advisers like jobseekers with disabilities believe that the trades are not for themselves, Estime Rachel Bouvard, CSR Director of the National Independent Group of the Hospitality Services. Yet diversity has every place to be in our trades. In cooking, in service or in the hotel, in trades related to room staff … “

Most institutions with fewer than twenty employees, they are not subject to the obligation to employ at least 6% of disability workers, on pain of having to pay a contribution to the Fund Management Association. for the professional integration of people with disabilities. “There are about 10,000 member companies, 80% of whom have fewer than twenty employees, so do not have a disability obligation,” says Rachel Bouvard. They are therefore not recognized in the 2019 Ministry of Labor.

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