Article 26 Habilitation and Rehabilitation
286. The Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (LPREPD) prescribes professional rehabilitation of persons with disabilities as the organization and implementation of the programme of measures and activities with the aim to qualify them for adequate jobs, employment, maintenance of employment, progress or change of professional career.
287. The Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (LPREPD) governs in details the organization and the conditions for the operation of companies for professional rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities, and of working centres, respectively.
288. The Rulebook on Assessment of Additional Educational Health and Social Support to Children and Pupils ensures monitoring of needs of the child, provision of support in further social life and direction of remaining capacities to the child to the greatest extent.
289. The services of rehabilitation have been secured at all institutions where persons with disabilities and children with disabilities are placed, which are, on one side, intended for maintenance of capacities and, on the other, for raising of opportunities for persons with disabilities to fulfil their needs more adequately.
290. The provisions of Articles 19 and 20 of the Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (LPREPD) establish the right to professional rehabilitation for employed persons with disabilities.
291. Detailed conditions, criteria and standards for implementation of measures and activities of professional rehabilitation shall be prescribed in an agreement by the Minister in charge of employment affairs, the Minister in charge of health affairs and the Minister in charge of educational affairs.
292. In view of adverse educational structure of persons with disabilities (a considerable number of them has the first level of qualifications - 35.40%, and 12.21% of them has the second level, whereas the percentage of them with the third level is similar – 31.34%) looking for jobs and the fact that persons with disabilities may considerably improve their working outputs after the implementation of measures and activities of professional rehabilitation, the Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (LPREPD) prescribes the development of training programmes based on the requirements of the labour market, which meet the essential criteria for accomplishment of planned results and gaining of professional competences. In 2010 there were 29 organized trainings for the requirements of the labour market and the known employer, which also included 191 persons with disabilities.
293. The holders of jobs of professional rehabilitation may be companies for professional rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities, educational institutions and other legal entities and natural persons fulfilling the standards concerned.