ICESCR concluding observations 2025, paragraph 33
Plain English recommendation
Government should:
Do more to tackle unemployment and underemployment for women, disabled people, young people, ethnic minorities and migrants. Government should create targeted job programmes in the public sector, improve job training and employment services and ensure hiring processes and workplaces are accessible. It should also create private sector partnerships in line with UN advice on the right to work.
Original UN recommendation
The Committee recommends that the State Party, along with the devolved government of Northern Ireland, strengthen efforts to address unemployment and underemployment among women, persons with disabilities, young people, ethnic minorities and migrants by implementing targeted public sector employment schemes, enhancing vocational training and employment services, ensuring reasonable accommodation in recruitment and the workplace and developing private sector partnerships, guided by the Committee’s general comment No. 18 (2005) on the right to work.
Date of UN examination
12/03/2025
Original UN document
Download the original ICESCR concluding observations 2025 on the UN website.