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The labour Ministry is preparing a change of the mechanism of employment quotas for people with disabilities: an employer who is unable for various reasons to hire person with disabilities, will be able to Deposit money into a special Fund, said Deputy Minister of labor and social protection of the Russian Federation Grigory Lekarev.
Now for organizations employing more than 100 people, the region sets quota for employment of disabled persons in the amount of 2-4% of the staff. If the number of employees from 35 to 100 people, the quota is no more than 3%
“We want to make quota mechanism more effective… just specify that here we are at the stage of developing the idea. The point of it is to make the implementation of quotas more flexible: not only through the allocation of jobs for people with disabilities, but also by paying those employers who, for whatever reason, are unable or unwilling to enforce the quota in kind,” Lekarev said in an interview with the newspaper “Izvestia”.
As said Lekarev, “these funds will be used to support organizations who are disabled above the quota or provide work for disabled people with serious groups.”