Russia is concerned with integrating disabled people into the labor market. On December 3, Maxime Topilin, Minister for Labor and Social Protection, presented the outline of a bill on the subject. Changes will be made to 26 laws and codes to make the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities a reality – in force since October 25, 2012. The bill will determine the administrations and employers’ role, the notion of discrimination, buildings’ accessibility, and so on.
“The text will be voted by 2016,” Topilin promised. He wants 60 percent of disabled people of working age to get a job. “There are no statistics” [sic] on this part of the population, so the government will do an inventory before the law is adopted. However, out of 12.9¹ disabled Russians, the Ministry of Labor believes that there are 2.34 million of working age, of which about 1.7 million are unemployed.
Quotas and subsidies. There are already measures to promote the employment of disabled
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