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LT • LITHUANIA General Equal rights and opportunities. principle Reference Regulation-Recommendations for text Provision of Equal Opportunities for the Disabled, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations.

EMPLOYMENT LEGISL ATION SUMMARY, EU-25

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Convention (1994). Social Integration of the Disabled Act (1991) with an amended Act Labour Code (2002). Vocational Education and Training Act (1997). 4 decrees regarding integration, vocational rehabilitation, promotion of employment, establishment of disability status from 1992 to 2002. Law on Equal Opportunities (2005).

Obligatory Quotas for employers with over measures 50 employees. Incentives Tax relief, subsidies. Tenure of office, Disabled employee dismissals examined and adaptation by social welfare office. of workstation Vocational rehabilitation National Programme for the Social Integration measures of People with Disabilities 2003-2012: creation of a vocational rehabilitation system. Other measures — Support 4 main rehabilitation centres. structure Intermediaries — Sheltered/ — supported employment

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