A/HRC/22/25 ensure that legislation creates the obligation to provide reasonable accommodation and stipulates that denial of reasonable accommodation constitutes discrimination. States parties should inform public- and private-sector employers, as well as persons with disabilities, of the concept and implications of reasonable accommodation. 70. The Convention requires States parties to adopt positive measures to increase employment of persons with disabilities in the public and private sectors, including through the promotion of self-employment schemes which are non-discriminatory and fully inclusive of persons with disabilities. Both State actors and employers carry the responsibility of ensuring that all positive measures or programmes are designed and promoted in a way that recognizes the value of diversity in the workplace and equal career development for all. 71. With the aim of enhancing the employment opportunities of persons with disabilities in the open labour market, States parties should ensure, including through legislation, equal access to vocational training and rehabilitation programmes that are non-discriminatory, accessible to and inclusive of all persons with disabilities, and guarantee that reasonable accommodation is provided. Employers must ensure that employees with disabilities have equal access to such programmes. 72. Social protection programmes should support persons with disabilities in seeking and maintaining work, and avoid creating so called “benefit traps” which discourage persons with disabilities from engaging in formal work. 73. States parties are requested to include indicators on type of disability and type of work when collecting data on employment so as to allow for well-informed and targeted efforts to be made to improve the employment situation of persons with disabilities. Further, States must involve representative organizations of persons with disabilities in the design, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of all policies and programmes related to the employment of persons with disabilities. An independent mechanism to monitor the implementation of the Convention, as provided for under article 33 of the Convention, can play a role in helping to create stronger links between social partners already engaged in employment policy and monitoring and representative organizations of persons with disabilities. 18