[1] Denmark signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol in December 2006 and ratified it in July 2009.
[2] Denmark operates an inclusive labour market through a series of employability programmes aimed at integrating people with disabilities into the workplace.
The flex Job scheme was introduced in 1998[3] to bridge the gap in employment of disabled people by allowing employers to hire those with a reduced work ability at a rate which is then subsidised by the government in order to meet the minimum wage.
[5]: 12–13 Unlike many of its European counterparts, Denmark does not use a quota system for employing disabled people because it is viewed as placing disabled people in a special category,[5]: 14 and instead favours an inclusive and active labour market approach.
[7] The number of disabled people living in poverty in Denmark is also above the OECD average at 24.8%.