During the first quarter of 2025, the multinationals Advanced Personnel Management, Clarins, Egis, Pluxee, and Sandoz made the formal commitment, the United Nations institution announced on its website this Thursday.

In addition, the Tanzanían Business Association, with the support of the international NGO Sightsavers and the ILO, launched a National Network on Business and Disability in March, which supports the country’s entities in adopting policies and practices to address the problem.

According to the source, the number of business actors around the world who “realize the economic and ethical imperative of promoting disability inclusion” is increasing.

The aforementioned ILO Global Network is a global platform currently comprised of 43 multinational companies, 45 National Business and Disability Networks, and seven non-business associate members, including the International Disability Alliance, the organization stated.

According to Argentine expert María Eugenia Quintana, the exclusion of this population segment from the workforce could mean annual losses of up to seven percent of gross domestic product for States.

An analysis by the specialist, published by the ILO in 2024, indicated that in Argentina, one in five households has at least one person with a disability, and, in turn, only two out of 10 people with disabilities of working age work.

In many cases, Quintana recalled, they only access informal jobs, with wage gaps, inadequate environments, and unregulated and unregistered labor agreements.

People with disabilities are not a minority: they represent 15 percent of the world’s population, and their effective inclusion does not happen spontaneously. It requires coordinated efforts by governments, employers’ organizations, and trade unions, along with a broad network of civil society actors, he summarized.

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