Magna Carta for Persons

with Disability
R.A No. 7277, as amended
PWD CENSUS CY 2010

 About 16 per thousand of the country’s population had

disability.
 Of the 92.1 million household population in the country,
1,443 thousand persons or 1.57 percent had disability,
based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing (2010
CPH).
Declaration of Policy
 Disabled persons are part of the Philippine society.
 State shall adopt policies ensuring the rehabilitation, self-
development and self-reliance of disabled persons. It shall
develop their skills and potentials to enable them to
compete favorably for available opportunities.
 Disabled persons have the same rights as other people to
take their proper place in society.
 The rehabilitation of the disabled persons shall be the
concern of the Government.
Who are Person with Disability

 Disabled persons are those suffering from

restriction or different abilities, as a result
of a mental, physical or sensory
impairment, to perform an activity in the
manner or within the range considered
normal for a human being.
Right to Equal Opportunity for
Employment
A. Equal Opportunity for Employment.
B. Sheltered Employment
C. Apprenticeship
D. Vocational Rehabilitation
E. Non-Formal Education
PROHIBITION ON DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST DISABLED PERSONS
 No entity, whether public or private, shall discriminate against a
qualified disabled person by reason of disability in regard to job
application procedures, the hiring, promotion, or discharge of
employees, employee compensation, job training, and other terms,
conditions, and privileges of employment.
ACTS OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
 (a) Limiting, segregating or classifying a disabled job
applicant in such a manner that adversely affects his work
opportunities;
 (b) Using qualification standards, employment tests or
other selection criteria that screen out or tend to screen
out a disabled person unless such standards, tests or other
selection criteria are shown to be job-related for the
position in question and are consistent with business
necessity;
ACTS OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
 (c) Utilizing standards, criteria, or methods of administration that:
 (1) have the effect of discrimination on the basis of disability; or
 (2) perpetuate the discrimination of others who are subject to
common administrative control.

 (d) Providing less compensation, such as salary, wage or other forms

of remuneration and fringe benefits, to a qualified disabled
employee, by reason of his disability, than the amount to which a
non-disabled person performing the same work is entitled;
ACTS OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
 (e) Favoring a non-disabled employee over a qualified disabled
employee with respect to promotion, training opportunities, study
and scholarship grants, solely on account of the latter's disability;
 (f) Re-assigning or transferring a disabled employee to a job or
position he cannot perform by reason of his disability;
 (g) Dismissing or terminating the services of a disabled employee by
reason of his disability unless the employer can prove that he impairs
the satisfactory performance of the work involved to the prejudice of
the business entity: Provided, however, That the employer first
sought to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled persons;
ACTS OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
 (h) Failing to select or administer in the most effective
manner employment tests which accurately reflect the
skills, aptitude or other factor of the disabled applicant or
employee that such tests purports to measure, rather than
the impaired sensory, manual or speaking skills of such
applicant or employee, if any; and
 (i) Excluding disabled persons from membership in labor
unions or similar organizations.
Benefits provided by R.A 10524

 At least one percent (1%) of all positions in all government agencies,

offices or corporations shall be reserved for persons with disability:
Provided, That private corporations with more than one hundred
(100) employees are encouraged to reserve at least one percent (1%)
of all positions for persons with disability.