WORLD Policy Analysis Center

Are employers required to take steps to prevent workplace discrimination on the basis of disability?

The term ‘disability’ includes general references to disabilities (‘handicap’, ‘impaired’, or ‘special needs’), or specific mentions of mental, intellectual, sensory, or physical disabilities. For the purposes of this variable, the term “disability” captures all of these definitions.

No prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability indicates that legislation does not specifically prohibit disability-based workplace discrimination broadly, nor specifically against discrimination in hiring, promotions and/or demotions, training, pay, nor terminations. This does not mean that legislation denies this guarantee.

No explicit requirements means that legislation does explicitly prohibit at least one of these forms of disability-based workplace discrimination, but it does not at the same time pair this prohibition with an explicit requirement that employers actively prevent it.

General requirement, but no specific measures means that employers are generally required to prevent disability-based workplace discrimination, but there are no specific descriptions of the form that this prevention should take.

Employers required to take one or more measures means that employers are explicitly required to take at least one concrete preventive action against disability-based workplace discrimination, such as, for example, providing training to employees, developing a code of conduct, or raising awareness of existing legislation.

Countries

Afghanistan - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Argentina - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Bhutan - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Brunei - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Cabo Verde - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Chad - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Comoros - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Republic of the Congo - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Dominica - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Equatorial Guinea - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Eritrea - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

The Gambia - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Greenland - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Guinea-Bissau - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Iran - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Iraq - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Democratic People's Republic of Korea - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Lesotho - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Libya - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Micronesia, Federated States of - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Nauru - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Papua New Guinea - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Solomon Islands - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Somalia - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

St. Kitts and Nevis - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

St. Vincent and the Grenadines - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Sudan - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Switzerland - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Syria - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Tonga - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

United Arab Emirates - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Vanuatu - No explicit prohibition of workplace discrimination based on disability

Algeria - No explicit requirements

Andorra - No explicit requirements

Antigua and Barbuda - No explicit requirements

Armenia - No explicit requirements

Australia - No explicit requirements

Austria - No explicit requirements

Azerbaijan - No explicit requirements

Bahamas - No explicit requirements

Bahrain - No explicit requirements

Bangladesh - No explicit requirements

Belarus - No explicit requirements

Belize - No explicit requirements

Benin - No explicit requirements

Bolivia - No explicit requirements

Botswana - No explicit requirements

Brazil - No explicit requirements

Burkina Faso - No explicit requirements

Burundi - No explicit requirements

Cambodia - No explicit requirements

Cameroon - No explicit requirements

Central African Republic - No explicit requirements

Chile - No explicit requirements

China - No explicit requirements

Colombia - No explicit requirements

Democratic Republic of the Congo - No explicit requirements

Croatia - No explicit requirements

Cuba - No explicit requirements

Cyprus - No explicit requirements

Denmark - No explicit requirements

Djibouti - No explicit requirements

Dominican Republic - No explicit requirements

Egypt - No explicit requirements

El Salvador - No explicit requirements

Ethiopia - No explicit requirements

Fiji - No explicit requirements

Gabon - No explicit requirements

Ghana - No explicit requirements

Grenada - No explicit requirements

Guatemala - No explicit requirements

Guinea - No explicit requirements

Guyana - No explicit requirements

Haiti - No explicit requirements

Honduras - No explicit requirements

Hungary - No explicit requirements

Indonesia - No explicit requirements

Ireland - No explicit requirements

Israel - No explicit requirements

Italy - No explicit requirements

Jamaica - No explicit requirements

Japan - No explicit requirements

Jordan - No explicit requirements

Kazakhstan - No explicit requirements

Kiribati - No explicit requirements

Kuwait - No explicit requirements

Kyrgyzstan - No explicit requirements

Latvia - No explicit requirements

Lebanon - No explicit requirements

Liberia - No explicit requirements

Liechtenstein - No explicit requirements

Luxembourg - No explicit requirements

North Macedonia - No explicit requirements

Madagascar - No explicit requirements

Malawi - No explicit requirements

Maldives - No explicit requirements

Mali - No explicit requirements

Marshall Islands - No explicit requirements

Mauritania - No explicit requirements

Mexico - No explicit requirements

Monaco - No explicit requirements

Montenegro - No explicit requirements

Morocco - No explicit requirements

Mozambique - No explicit requirements

Myanmar - No explicit requirements

Namibia - No explicit requirements

Nepal - No explicit requirements

The Netherlands - No explicit requirements

New Zealand - No explicit requirements

Niger - No explicit requirements

Nigeria - No explicit requirements

Oman - No explicit requirements

Pakistan - No explicit requirements

Palau - No explicit requirements

Panama - No explicit requirements

Paraguay - No explicit requirements

Peru - No explicit requirements

The Philippines - No explicit requirements

Portugal - No explicit requirements

Qatar - No explicit requirements

Russian Federation - No explicit requirements

Rwanda - No explicit requirements

Samoa - No explicit requirements

San Marino - No explicit requirements

Sao Tome and Principe - No explicit requirements

Saudi Arabia - No explicit requirements

Senegal - No explicit requirements

Serbia - No explicit requirements

Seychelles - No explicit requirements

Sierra Leone - No explicit requirements

Singapore - No explicit requirements

South Sudan - No explicit requirements

Spain - No explicit requirements

Sri Lanka - No explicit requirements

St. Lucia - No explicit requirements

Suriname - No explicit requirements

Eswatini - No explicit requirements

Tajikistan - No explicit requirements

Thailand - No explicit requirements

Timor-Leste - No explicit requirements

Trinidad and Tobago - No explicit requirements

Tunisia - No explicit requirements

Türkiye - No explicit requirements

Turkmenistan - No explicit requirements

Tuvalu - No explicit requirements

Uganda - No explicit requirements

Ukraine - No explicit requirements

United Kingdom - No explicit requirements

United States of America - No explicit requirements

Uruguay - No explicit requirements

Uzbekistan - No explicit requirements

Venezuela - No explicit requirements

Yemen - No explicit requirements

Zimbabwe - No explicit requirements

Angola - General requirement, but no specific measures

Bosnia and Herzegovina - General requirement, but no specific measures

Czech Republic - General requirement, but no specific measures

Iceland - General requirement, but no specific measures

Kenya - General requirement, but no specific measures

Republic of Korea - General requirement, but no specific measures

Malaysia - General requirement, but no specific measures

Norway - General requirement, but no specific measures

Slovakia - General requirement, but no specific measures

Togo - General requirement, but no specific measures

Albania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Barbados - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Belgium - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Bulgaria - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Canada - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Costa Rica - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Cote d'Ivoire - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Ecuador - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Estonia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Finland - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

France - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Georgia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Germany - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Greece - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Lithuania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Malta - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Mauritius - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Moldova - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Mongolia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Nicaragua - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Poland - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Romania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Slovenia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

South Africa - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Sweden - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Tanzania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Vietnam - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Zambia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures