Objective 4: Create inclusive workplaces

• How important are the proposed actions – do you think they will make a difference?
• Is there is anything important missing?
• Is there anything that should be changed or removed?

Action area 4.1

Promote flexible and wellbeing enhancing workplaces

1. Promote mentally healthy workplaces as part of the Health and Safety at Work Strategy 2018–2028.
2. Provide employers with more information about reasonable accommodations (making changes to the workplace or job tasks so that a disabled person can do the job).
3. Provide employers with information about making workplaces inclusive.
4. Ensure part-time work options are available for disabled people and people with health conditions, and are advertised alongside the full-time roles.
5. Support disabled people and people with health conditions to self-advocate for flexible work arrangements and reasonable accommodations.
6. Provide employers with information so that they can ask health and disability questions appropriately when they are recruiting people.
7. Undertake research between MidCentral Health and MSD to identify opportunities to intervene early with the right support to prevent people from falling out of work.
8. Apply international best practice models for alternatives to medical retirement. This will begin in the State Sector.

Action area 4.2

Stop people from falling out of work

1. Undertake research between MidCentral Health and MSD to identify opportunities to intervene early with the right support to prevent people from falling out of work.
2. Apply international best practice models for alternatives to medical retirement. This will begin in the State Sector.