FRANCAIS
DEUTSCH
NEDERLANDS

WALLOON FEDERATION OF
THE COMPANIES OF ADAPTED WORK
The EWETA - Entente Wallonne des Entreprises de Travail Adapté - was created in 1978, it is a federation of non-profit institution wich regroups 56 of the 58 CAW - companies of adapted work (called in the past : sheltered workshops) of Wallonia, Belgium's area
Its regional executive Power grants different subsidies for the training and the employment of handicapped people but the company of adapted work must be acknowledged by the authority concerned to benefit from those state grants.
That is why the managers of the companies of adapted work wanted to gather to defend their policy for the handicapped people on the social, legal and economic levels.

OUR OBJECTIVES
The EWETA wants to be a place of reflexion and promotion of the mission of the CAW.

ON THE SOCIAL STANDING
the EWETA is at the same time an organization:

  • of coordination
    It fulfills this function between the CAW affiliated, by the organization of meetings, working groups on precise topics.
  • of information
    It collects and disseminates all information concerning the energization of the handicapped people as well on the national level as international.
  • of claim
    It represents the interests of the CAW near the federal, regional Ministers and Community set of the social interlocutors.
    It is recognized by the Ministry for Employment and Work within the framework of the Joint Committee of the companies of adapted work and the social workshops - CP 327
  • of promotion
    It supports the public image of the CAW and consequently, the employment of the handicapped people stimulates.

AT THE ECONOMIC LEVEL

  • Participation in the exposures, trade fairs and industrial
  • Direct contacts with the companies wishing to entrust work to the CAW
  • Study of prices charged on the market by the CAW
  • Publication of a "PROFESSIONAL GUIDE OF THE CAW IN WALLOON AREA" also diffused in the form of CD-Rom by the Walloon Area
  • Setting-up of technical commissions at the request of the CAW
  • Website

AT THE LEGAL LEVEL

  • Direct response to the legal requests emanating from the CAW members
  • Examination of the texts of press and legal concerning the CAW
  • Publication of a newsletter

ON THE TRAINING LEVEL
The EWETA is the promoter of the European projects where are organized formations.
WHAT IS A CAW ?

The CAW, Company of Adapted Work (in the past called SHELTERED WORKSHOP), manufacturing unit of goods or services, employs handicapped people for whom this type of company constitutes, temporarily or definitively a tool of energization and social advancement.

To remain, the CAW must be maintained in the good commercial crenels and adapt permanently to the requirements of the market; which requires more and more to know faire.
The CAW in Walloon Area, have all, several spheres of activities passing from the craft industry to the advanced technologies. Several among conclude from the contracts of industrial subcontracting or supply of products.  The CAW must constantly maintain a balance between the social aspect and the economic aspect .

More and more of CAW work of subcontracting to the centre even of the companies customer carries out. They conclude a contract from company with their customer, this one must nevertheless be the subject of a preliminary authorization of the AWIPH, subsidizing authority.

Some CAW work for their own account, which requires an investment in the field of marketing and implies the management of the entirety of the production process. Often, this option is only partial, the CAW working at the same time in subcontracting and clean production. From the economic point of view, the CAW is confronted with the reduction of the profit margins, the modification of structrure of the costs and new management sciences like the "just in time".