This is the first issue a company faces when making the first incursions through disabled people hiring. By the way, I guess it's not a secret that this has only begun to happen at all because affirmative action laws have forced enterprises of a certain size to hire disabled people as part of their workforce.
Companies feel this request from the state is unfair because of a simple fact: while there's a large population with disabilities (worldwide), there are very few disabled people that have managed to get good formal education. And this is the first filter any company applies for selecting candidates. This is a factual truth and there's little a company can do to change this reality in the short term.
So why put that burden on companies? Because companies extract their profits from society and inclusion is eminently a social responsibility. Plus, companies and their higher level employees usually claim they are much more efficient and less corrupt than the State. So that's an additional reason for having private companies handling the matter.
Conclusion to this topic is there are really not enough qualified disabled people out there (especially in Brazil) to make up the sum of all the companies quotas. Yes, that creates a real and economically impacting issue for the companies. And I think that's much more fair than leaving the burden of unemployment on disabled people and their families, which by the way correlate quite well with poverty statistics.
But that raises a question I don't quite get, and it's also about supply and demand. If fines for not complying with hiring quotas are substantial as companies claim, and if qualified individuals are so rare in the target population, why don't we see any sign of inflation on wages employed disabled people have? Good topic for next part. Stay tuned!
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