Changes in grants to employment of handicapped persons and their implications for employment in sheltered workshops and vo-cational rehabilitation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to critically analyze introduced in 2008 changes in the rules of subsidizing employment of people with disabilities and their impact on the sector sheltered workshops and employment of people with disabilities. Subsidies for the employment of people with disabilities, introduced in 2004, provided an important instrument for the support of all employers that employ disabled people. However, the allocation of large sums of sheltered workshops than employers operating in the open labor market, would be compensation for expenditure on the creation of special working conditions and rehabilitation in the sheltered workshops. The reduction of these amounts and equalization grants transferred to sheltered workshops with employers from the open labor market was particularly unfavorable for sheltered employment sector and has become the major cause of the resignation of sheltered workshop of this status