A commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission welcomed the proposal of putting out people from the disability pension and deploying them back to the country's workforce.

Disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes is asking, however, how the Business Council of Australia is planning to implement its proposal and what concrete actions are the council prepared to undertake in addressing the issue.

The proposal was aired by the council on Monday in order to save money for financing the federal government's rehabilitation programs on areas devastated by the flooding disaster, instead of implementing the one-off flood levy.

However, the proposal was scored by Senior Australian of the Year and disability advocate Ron McCallum, who reminded the Business Council that "the disability pension should not be arbitrarily cut simply because of the Queensland floods."

Commissioner Innes said on Tuesday that he would back the calls of the council since many persons with disabilities are in fact "keen to get back into the workforce rather than to sit on an unemployment or welfare benefit."

Innes could only hope though that in line with its idea, the Business Council of Australia will pitch in sufficient contributions in reducing the number of people enlisted on the disability pensions since it is one of the major employers of the country.

Also, he stressed that even the Australian government would want to raise its budget and moving people from the disability pensions would be a viable option available but it must be ensure, he added, that those removed would be back into employment.

Innes said that it is his personal belief that persons with disabilities are welcomed back into the Australian workforce instead of languishing to pension status but one major hindrance according to him is "there are misconceptions among employers and government about people with disabilities."

The commissioner pointed to recent research findings that showed no extra costs would be required to employ persons with disabilities "and where there is an extra cost, the Government has programs to resource or subsidise that cost."

On its part, the Business Council has expressed willingness to absorb more people with disabilities, especially in the event that Australia's disability pensions were re-adjusted purportedly to induce them into working.