Case Studies on Employment of People with Disabilities in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: the Netherlands

The report on the Netherlands consists of two qualitative studies: a case study of 11 SMEs focusing on general company policy on the employment of staff with a work disability, and a study of three cases of successful reintegration in an SME, including a detailed description of how and why the disabled person was taken on. Studies for this project were conducted in six Member States. National research teams were given the opportunity to conduct the case-study research in accordance with their own views and experience and following their own approach and methodologies, the aim being to take into account the particular context of the country and each enterprise. They considered the process by which an employer identifies a need to employ someone, a person with a disability seeks employment, and a contractual relationship is established and maintained.