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Slovakia - Disabled workers - Law, Act

Act No. 292/1999 amending Act No. 387/1996 on employment.

Adoption: 1999-10-27 | Date of entry into force: 1999-12-01 | SVK-1999-L-56606

Regulates, inter alia, the amount and the conditions to receive unemployment benefit, as well as the duties of the employer hiring disabled employees.

Slovakia - Disabled workers - Law, Act

Act No. 240/1993 on changes concerning social welfare.

Adoption: 1993-09-30 | Date of entry into force: 1993-11-01 | SVK-1993-L-40588

Mentally and seriously disabled persons receive special privileges according to the seriousness of their handicap, such as transport at reduced price. The State is obliged to create conditions for the social integration of those persons and must provide them with suitable jobs.

Slovakia - Disabled workers - Law, Act

Act No. 159/1993 to amend Act No. 14/1993 on national book-keeping and other changes in laws on social security.

Adoption: 1993-07-09 | Date of entry into force: 1993-08-01 | SVK-1993-L-41195

Provides that employers must contribute insurance fees amounting to 9 percent of the total salaries paid for disabled employees' health, hospital and retirement insurance. Also fixes at 1 percent of the total salaries paid the amount to contributed by employers to the disabled workers' employment fund.