O conceito de pessoa com deficiência e seu impacto nas ações afirmativas brasileiras no mercado de trabalho

Abstract

This article aims to study the new concept of person with disability as stated in the International Convention concerning the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations approved on December 13, 2006 and its impacts on Brazilian affirmative actions for the inclusion of workers with disabilities in the labor market. This concept changes the focus of the word disability, hitherto regarded as a limitation on certain class of people, asserting that it relates to barriers imposed by society that prevent the full development of all its citizens. It is then up to the very society to create mechanisms so that it fits all, each one with its peculiarities, so as to achieve the desired equality in its material sense. Regarding that it will be studied the evolution of the concept of person with disability in human history, the constitutional principles and affirmative actions involved in the realization of the fundamental right of labor for these people and finally, the impact of the new concept in the procedures to be adopted in implementing those actions.