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Disabled persons entitled to jobs just like other people
Belgrade,
2 December 2005
Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy Slobodan Lalovic said today that the ministry’s aim is to provide conditions for the physically disabled to start performing jobs and thus earn a living.
During his visit to the home for disabled adults “Dragisa Vitosevic” in Zemun, on the occasion of December 3, the International Day of Disabled Persons, Lalovic said it will take seven to eight years to reform the entire social protection system and implement European standards in this sector.
The next year will be especially important when it comes to improving the position of disabled persons, said Lalovic and announced that amendments to the Law on Social Protection should be adopted as early as this month. The amendments envisage an increase in home care between 60 and 160 percent.
The minister said that a new law on employment and rehabilitation of disabled persons should be adopted next spring, which will help a greater number of people get jobs and enable the establishing of help centres for those who can work.
According to Lalovic, the law against discrimination of disabled persons will be passed in late February or early March next year. The ministries of labour and of capital investment have agreed to establish a legal basis for removing architectural barriers for wheelchair-bound disabled persons, he added.
It is necessary to create as good life conditions for the disabled as possible, and the strategy the government adopted yesterday envisages a decentralisation in the form of a transfer of responsibilities onto local self-governments, he said.
He also added that there are 800,000 disabled persons in Serbia.
The next year will be especially important when it comes to improving the position of disabled persons, said Lalovic and announced that amendments to the Law on Social Protection should be adopted as early as this month. The amendments envisage an increase in home care between 60 and 160 percent.
The minister said that a new law on employment and rehabilitation of disabled persons should be adopted next spring, which will help a greater number of people get jobs and enable the establishing of help centres for those who can work.
According to Lalovic, the law against discrimination of disabled persons will be passed in late February or early March next year. The ministries of labour and of capital investment have agreed to establish a legal basis for removing architectural barriers for wheelchair-bound disabled persons, he added.
It is necessary to create as good life conditions for the disabled as possible, and the strategy the government adopted yesterday envisages a decentralisation in the form of a transfer of responsibilities onto local self-governments, he said.
He also added that there are 800,000 disabled persons in Serbia.
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