Employment experts come in different shapes and sizes and can be found everywhere: at large companies, smaller organizations, at insurance companies and also as freelancers. What is less well known is that municipalities are also important cooperation partners for the labor experts at Puls.

More and more municipalities are having to deal with people with medical disabilities; for these people, the search for paid work is more difficult. Municipalities strive to get as many people as possible out of welfare and back into the labor market. How can they achieve this is a difficult question for many municipalities; how can they support people with a disability in the labor market? Are there any work opportunities at all for people with specific medical limitations?

Municipalities have an added task

Anyone who can work but cannot make it in the labor market without support has been covered by the Participation Act since 2015. This law should ensure that more people find work; including people with labor disabilities. Before the introduction of the Participation Act, the UWV was responsible for people with an employment limitation in the Wajong. Now municipalities have been made responsible for this. Also, people with an employment limitation who used to work in a sheltered workshop through the Social Employment Act are now the responsibility of municipalities.

The field of work of municipalities in the social domain has thus become a lot larger and more complex. Therefore, optimal cooperation between municipalities and labor experts is more important than ever before.

We offer municipalities the solution!

Puls strives for optimal cooperation with municipalities. Not only for the municipalities themselves, but also in the interest of people with a disability. After all, people with a limitation to the labor market need extra and sustainable support. Our labor experts can provide municipalities with concrete advice on the employment possibilities of this benefit recipient!

Puls-Occupational Assessor Marrit Schippers conducts many Occupational Assessor surveys in cooperation with municipalities, "Within these surveys I speak to many people on welfare benefits. These are people who have not had paid work for a long time or people who have never worked. Before we start working together, we always have a doctor assess whether this gentleman or lady is capable of working, despite the (medical) limitation(s). If those abilities are there, then I get to work to make a recommendation for an appropriate work direction and work environment. I then take into account the limitations, level of education, affinities and past work experience of the welfare recipient. In my advice, I also include a concrete step-by-step plan, with which the welfare recipient and municipal employee can get started, for example by starting volunteer work or by attending a short training course."

The use of employment experts offers many advantages to municipalities: it prevents invisible work limitations from not being properly identified, thus preventing a possible mismatch in the work field. This prevents people from unnecessarily 'sitting on the bench'. Moreover, it can save the municipality a lot of unnecessary costs.

Want to know more?

Would you like to know more about the work of our labor experts within the social domain or would you like to know what we can do for your municipality? Then get in touch with Marrit Schippers, via the contact form or on 088-0322460.