Vietnam’s regulations on employment for persons with disabilities

Specifically, according to Article 33 of the Law on Persons with Disabilities 2010 of Vietnam, employment for persons with disabilities is prescribed as follows:

Firstly, the State shall create conditions for persons with disabilities to have their working functions rehabilitated, to receive free job advice, to be employed and perform jobs suitable to their health and characteristics.

Secondly, agencies, organizations, enterprises and individuals may neither refuse to recruit persons with disabilities who fully satisfy the recruitment conditions nor set recruitment criteria in violation of law in order to restrict working opportunities of persons with disabilities.

Thirdly, agencies, organizations, enterprises and individuals employing persons with disabilities shall, depending on their specific conditions, arrange jobs and ensure the working conditions and environment suitable to these persons.

Fourthly, agencies, organizations, enterprises and individuals employing persons with disabilities shall comply with the labor law concerning employees with disabilities.

Fifthly, job placement organizations shall provide vocational training and job advice as well as job recommendation for persons with disabilities.

Sixthly, self-employed persons with disabilities or households creating jobs for persons with disabilities may borrow loans at preferential interest rates for production and business activities and to be guided in production, technology transfer and receive support in product sales according to regulations of the Government.

Self-employed disabled people and households employing the disabled are eligible for the following policies:

- Taking low-interest loans from Social Policy Banks for production and business. The loan conditions, terms and amount must comply with current regulations on loans for job creation projects;

- Receiving instruction in production and business and support in technology transfer and product sale.

This is the content guided in Article 8 of Decree No. 28/2012/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government.

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