Employment for people with disabilities

The practice is a program for employment support and subsidizing the cost of salaries paid by businesses to people with physical disabilities, as well as the cost of outfitting their workplaces. The practice is implemented by the Labor and employment agency of the Sakhalin Region.

The government money is being paid to public employment centers in the Sakhalin region. The subsidy is targeted and can’t be spent on other things.

Target audience 

• People with I, II, or III disability group, aged 18 to 44 and registered with the Sakhalin Region public employment center as seeking employment;

• Employers: for profit and not for profit organizations providing and assisting in providing employment for people with disabilities;

• Legal persons (except for government and municipal ones), employing disabled persons: sole proprietors, physical persons — producers of goods, works, or services.

Who can get the subsidy? 

The subsidy is provided after a competitive bidding, not to be repaid/strong>:

1. to non-profit organizations which are not government (or municipal) institutions (NPOs):

• those that have developed a program for supporting employment of young disabled persons, to recoup costs of assisting young disabled persons when they seek employment. The subsidy goes directly toward wage payments for those NFO employees who actually assist young disabled persons when they seek employment, as well as toward insurance payments;

• as financial resources for securing jobs occupied by working age disabled persons with persistent disruptions of bodily functions (groups I and II), provided at least 50% of the NFO staff are disabled persons. Furthermore, the disabled staff members may work at the NFO before the start of the year the subsidy is provided for. The subsidy goes toward wage and insurance payments for the disabled staff members.

2. Legal persons (except for government and municipal ones), employing disabled persons: sole proprietors, physical persons — producers of goods, works, or services. The subsidy is paid toward recouping actual costs: wage payments for the disabled staff members, together with insurance payments; equipping (fixing) workplaces to give employment to unemployed disabled persons. The subsidy is paid for an employer who’s employed a disabled person referred to them by the employment center.

The priority right for the wage payment subsidy goes to the employers employing people with I and II group disabilities; for the workplaces equipment (fixing) — to the employers employing people with I and II group disabilities and disabled persons whose individual rehabilitation and abilitation program provide for a special workplace being equipped (fixed) for them.

The maximum subsidy amount is RUB 100,000 per workplace.

 What is subsidized?

• Recouping actual cost pf wages paid to the disabled staff members;

• Equipping their workplaces;

• Assisting young disabled persons when they’re looking for employment; 

• Preserving workplaces for disabled persons with persistent disruptions of bodily functions.

The program also includes the following support measures:

• Together with the employer, defining the business hours for people with special needs, in accordance with the labor laws;

• Advising the staff members working with people with special needs, on assisting them in mastering their jobs;

• Assisting people with special needs in getting vocational education, making a CV and preparing for job interviews;

• Analyzing the process special needs people’s adaptation to their workplace, detecting possible adaptation issues and barriers impeding them from doing their jobs.

 Stages of the program implementation in the Sakhalin Region: 

• 2010 — subsidizing equipped (fixed) workplaces;

• 2014 — subsidizing wage payments to the people with special needs; 

• 2018 — subsidizing assistance when seeking employment;

• 2020 — subsidizing workplaces preservation.