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Both people signed the GBDN Charter, which requires those who sign it to support ten principles for including people with disabilities.
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The Director-General of the ILO praised Inditex’s action. “
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Houngbo says that the ILO Global Business and Disability Network gives businesses a place where they can share information and help each other along their paths toward including people with disabilities.
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“An essential element of our commitment to people is the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace. “
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“Inditex plans to hire 1,500 people with disabilities globally for its store networks, shipping centers, warehouses, and offices to demonstrate its commitment to the GBDN.

The Director-General of the ILO praised Inditex’s action. “Companies are becoming more aware that they need to include people with disabilities in their diversity, equity, and inclusion activities if they want to make positive and lasting changes to how they do business,” Houngbo says that the ILO Global Business and Disability Network allows businesses to share information and help each other along their paths toward including people with disabilities.
“A key element of our commitment to people is the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace. “Our goal is to design chances for everyone,” emphasized Garca Maceiras. “Diversity, justice, and inclusion are values we all accept and seek daily to influence Inditex and everyone around us.”
Inditex wants to show that it cares about the GBDN by hiring 1,500 people with disabilities to work in its stores, shipping centers, warehouses, and offices worldwide. The company’s goal is for at least 2% of its local employees in markets where there are no set requirements to meet to be people with disabilities.
The ILO Global Business and Disability Network (GBDN), which was started in 2010, is an innovative employer-led global network of 36 multinational corporations, 34 national business and disability networks, including those in developing nations, and eight non-business associate members (academic institutions and disability and development INGOs) who work together to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in the private, for-profit sector.