Legal Regulation of Employment Promotion and Employment of Persons with Disabilities and the Practice of Implementation in the Light of Changes in the Legislation of the Russian Federation

Promoting the employment of people with disabilities is a complex task that requires concerted efforts by the state, employers and public organizations. Despite a fairly large number of laws regulating the issues of labor and employment of persons with disabilities, there is a problem in terms of their direct implementation. One of the reasons for this is the presence of gaps in the legislation, as well as norms that contradict each other. Recently, there has been a tendency to create the most acceptable conditions for employment of people with disabilities. The study of legislative norms and already established practice makes it possible to establish not only positive but also negative aspects, which implies the need to make appropriate changes to the laws. The paper analyzes the legal foundations of legislative regulation of arrangement of labor and employment of persons with disabilities; analyzes employment statistics for this category of persons; compares the Russian experience in allocating quotas for jobs for the disabled and the experience of some foreign countries; identifies modified penalties against employers; defines a set of services provided by the employment service for people with disabilities in order to promote the main problems faced by people with disabilities in the field of employment and employability are identified. Some proposals for solving these problems are substantiated.

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