The Employment of Persons with Disabilities and the prohibition of their discrimination

The Employment of Persons with Disabilities and the prohibition of their discrimination JUDr. Jana Humečková Summary People with disabilities face big problems in the labour market when they want to find a job. Their unemployment rate is far higher than the unemployment rate of the able-bodied. The disability itself is just a part of the problem. The employers often do not want to employ people with disabilities because they can see just their disabilities not their abilities. A lot of employers have still prejudices about people with disabilities and their skills. They consider them to be often ill and with a low productivity. Many employers have no idea what people with disabilities in spite of their limitations can do with the help of assistive technology devices. For this reason in my dissertation thesis I would like to examine in depth the legal regulations of the employment of people with disabilities in the international legally binding and non- binding documents, in the Czech legal regulations and in the legal regulations of some chosen states. Historically, people with disabilities were brought into focus of lawmakers after World War I, when thousands of injured and disabled people came home after the war. The state felt obliged to them because of their sacrifice to the welfare of the nation. First..