Incentives for Employment of Persons with Disabilities
Employers employing persons with disabilities, as well as self-employed persons with disabilities, are entitled to a number of incentives provided by the Service for Expertise, Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities
The incentives are related to:- wage subsidies
- co-financing of education costs
- co-financing of the costs of workplace adjustment
- co-financing the costs of the adjustment of working conditions
- compensation in the amount of the paid compulsory health insurance contributions
- co-financing the costs of professional assistance
- special funds for the development of new technologies and business processes for the purpose of employing and maintaining the employment of persons with disabilities
- aid for the sustainability of self-employment for persons with disabilities.
Read more about incentives for the employment of persons with disabilities on the website of the Service for Expertise, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities or at Service/Incentives.
Obligation of Employing Persons with Disabilities – Quota
Employers employing a minimum of 20 employees are subject to quotas, i.e. the employment of a certain number of persons with disabilities. The number of persons with disabilities that the employer is obligated to employ is calculated at the rate of three percent of the total number of employees.Employers can also meet the quota in an alternative manner:
- by admitting developmentally challenged students or students with disabilities for traineeship
- by admitting rehabilitants for traineeship within the framework of their professional rehabilitation
- by concluding a student employment contract with students with disabilities
- by admitting persons with disabilities to vocational work-related training without establishing an employment relationship
- by concluding business cooperation agreements with self-employed persons with disabilities
- by concluding business cooperation agreements with sheltered and integrative workshops, as well as companies, cooperatives and associations where over half of the personnel are people with disabilities
- by providing full-time education scholarships to persons with disabilities.
Employers that do not meet the quota, neither by employing people with disabilities nor in an alternative manner, are obligated to pay monetary compensation. The monetary compensation amounts to 20 percent of the monthly minimum wage for each person with disabilities that the employer was required to employ.
As of 1 April 2020, employers in labour-intensive industries are permanently exempted from the employment quota regarding persons with disabilities, therefore, also from the obligation to pay monetary compensation.