Powrót

Support offered to employers who employ people with disabilities

Support offered to employers who employ people with disabilities

Employers who wish to hire a disabled person, may apply for a financial support coming from various sources. The district labour office, as one of such sources, apart from financial help, offers also services within vocational counselling.  

All the forms of support that you can take advantage of are listed below, whereas detailed information are included in the selected section.

If you employ a disabled person, you may apply for:

  • reimbursement of the costs borne on:
    • the adaptation of premises for disabled people,
    • the adaptation or acquisition of the equipment that will help disabled employees to perform their work or function in the workplace,
    • the purchase and authorization of software that will be used by the employees with disabilities, and assistive technology devices that will facilitate their work,
    • the diagnosis conducted by the occupational health services concerning needs referred to in the cases provided above,
  • monthly subsidy to remuneration paid out to the disabled worker (only if the employee is included in the register of employed persons with disabilities compiled by National Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Fund (Polish PFRON)),
  • reimbursement of the costs borne on employing an employee assisting a disabled person,
  • reimbursement of the costs borne on providing equipment for a work-stand for a disabled person,
  • reimbursement of the costs borne on a disabled employee's trainings,
  • refund granted to an employer who employs a person with disabilities registered in a district labour office to work in the intervention works,
  • refund granted to an employer who employs a person with disabilities registered in a district labour office to work in public works,
  • refund granted to an employer who takes in a person with disabilities registered in a district labour office to participate in vocational training at the workplace

Moreover, a district labour office may offer you a help in terms of:

  • vocational counselling and information,
  • work exchange.

Legal basis

Act of 20 April 2004 on Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions,

Act of 27 August 1997 on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities
 


Remember! All the materials posted on the portal www.zielonalinia.gov.pl have been drawn up by the editorial group and are for your information. The editors have put a considerable effort to make the provided information accurate and reliable. However, the information does not constitute a binding interpretation of the law.