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disabilities should be taken when they have reached maturity age and only

when they are adequately informed.

Right to work and employment (Article 27)

60. Sections 33-35 of the 2007 Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

Act require an employer or a private enterprise and state agency to hire

one person with disability for every 100 employees. An employer or a

private enterprise that does not hire persons with disabilities as stipulated

by the law has to make financial contribution to the Disabilities Fund, or

give a concession, sub-contract, or provide spaces for sale of goods or

services, training or other assistances to persons with disabilities or their

caregivers. Statistics compiled by the DEP show that government agencies

employ far fewer persons with disabilities than the private sector. In 2013,

there are 30,769 persons with disabilities employed by the private sector.

This accounts for about 46 percent of a total of 53,689 persons to be hired

in accordance with the law. As for state agencies, 1,280 persons with

disabilities are employed or given assistance out of 10,851 persons

required to be employed by the law, accounting for only 9.5 percent of

the total number.

61. Although Thailand has a law that promotes employment of persons

with disabilities, concerned government agencies do not have effective

measures to prepare them for work. Having employment is no longer the

only concern of persons with disabilities. They want to be more involved

in the formulation of employment policies. Presently, a majority of persons

with disabilities are entrepreneurs or self-employed and they need support

in the knowledge on how to run a business and in access to credit. Persons

with disabilities who are employees have encountered problems such as a