Identifying Decent Work Challenges Among People with Disabilities and Providing Policy Solutions (Qualitative Research Among Experts)

Today, work is not simply about earning an income and working in a specific economic field, but rather about decent work that takes into account the dignity and worth of individuals. One of the social groups in need of work is people with disabilities, for whom providing decent work has become an important issue. Therefore, the present study aimed to study the challenges of decent work for people with disabilities and provide policy solutions. The study population consisted of academic experts, managers, experts, and activists in this field. Purposive sampling was conducted among 27 of these experts. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The criterion for stopping the interviews was information saturation, and the data were then extracted using coding and thematic analysis. The findings show that the challenges of decent work among people with disabilities are related to “policy and legal gaps, institutional empowerment, compensation and insurance, semantic and conceptual fragmentation, job adaptation, inferior self-concept, and the creation of needs-based content.” Policy solutions show that in order to address these challenges, action should be taken through “labor sharing, strengthening the idea of ​​social innovation of people with disabilities, semantic and conceptual integration of decent work, creating convergence between academic and institutional literature, and creating local methodological assessments to understand decent work for people with disabilities based on local and domestic requirements.