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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
- Promote mentally healthy workplaces as part of the Health and Safety at Work Strategy 2018–2028.
- 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).
- Provide employers with information about making workplaces inclusive.
- Ensure part-time work options are available for disabled people and people with health conditions, and are advertised alongside the full-time roles.
- Support disabled people and people with health conditions to self-advocate for flexible work arrangements and reasonable accommodations.
- Provide employers with information so that they can ask health and disability questions appropriately when they are recruiting people.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Apply international best practice models for alternatives to medical retirement. This will begin in the State Sector.