The General Disability Law (GDL) has the primary mission of promoting the labor integration of people with disabilities, ensuring their effective presence in the job market.
Under this regulation, all companies, both public and private, with 50 or more employees are obliged to reserve a percentage of employment for people with disabilities: at least 2% of their workforce, including both permanent and temporary contracts, with the calculation based on the average staff size over the last twelve months.
To facilitate implementation based on the size of each company, a practical counting system is established:
Between 50 and 99 workers → 1 person with disabilities.
Between 100 and 149 workers → 2 people with disabilities.
This approach not only responds to a legal requirement but also represents an opportunity to foster inclusive incorporation into the professional world, reinforce corporate social responsibility, and improve cohesion within work teams.
The Certificate of Exceptionality is a mechanism provided by the General Disability Law (GDL) that offers companies an alternative way to comply with the legal obligation to reserve 2% of their workforce for people with disabilities.
This certificate is requested when the direct hiring of workers with disabilities is not viable, whether due to reasons related to the company’s activity, the lack of suitable profiles, or the unavailability of candidates at that time.
Once granted, it allows the company to apply alternative measures of an exceptional nature, such as:
In this way, the Certificate of Exceptionality does not exempt companies from their social responsibility; rather, it ensures they continue to contribute to the labor inclusion of people with disabilities by adapting the regulations to their corporate reality.
