What is vocational rehabilitation?
(I) Connotation of Vocational Rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation refers to the comprehensive utilization of drugs, equipment and convalescent care to help disabled people recover their health and work ability, as well as their ability to take care of themselves. Including complete and partial recovery of limbs, organs and intelligence, as well as vocational training. Through medical rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation, the purpose of returning to work or suitable occupation, restoring normal living ability and participating in social activities can be achieved. Rehabilitation work can be summarized as: comprehensive and coordinated use of drugs, holiday recuperation or educational measures to restore the disabled to a certain degree of work and life ability. This process includes medical rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation. Medical rehabilitation mainly includes medical treatment, exercise therapy, language training, prosthetic installation, physical fitness test, vocational guidance and nursing. The so-called vocational rehabilitation is to consider the physical ability of the disabled, so that their potential quality after disability can be reasonably combined with re-employment, that is, to help them find employment according to their specific conditions. (II) The International Convention on Vocational Rehabilitation 1952 Convention on the Minimum Standards of Social Security (No.102) stipulates that the social security department should provide occupational injury and death subsidies to the disabled, and at the same time require social security institutions or other government departments to cooperate with the medical department to provide appropriate jobs for the disabled. 1955 ILO recommendation on vocational rehabilitation for the disabled (No.99) clearly requires that disabled people should make full use of possible rehabilitation facilities and provide them with appropriate employment facilities, including free job introduction. 1964 ILO Convention on Allowance for Work-related Accidents and Occupational Diseases (No.12 1) stipulates that all member countries should provide rehabilitation facilities for the disabled. If the above requirements cannot be met, member States should also take measures to find ways to find employment for the disabled. 1983 ILO recommendation No.99 and recommendation No.99 168 on vocational rehabilitation and employment (disabled people) point out that social security institutions should provide financial support, rehabilitation facilities, functional exercise, training and consulting services for disabled people, and encourage social security departments to provide financial support for disabled people to find their own jobs. (3) Vocational rehabilitation in China is one of the important goals of the development of modern industrial injury insurance. Helping and promoting the recovery and compensation of disabled people's living and working ability is not only conducive to enhancing their adaptability to life, but also conducive to expanding their social employment opportunities. Although the progress of vocational rehabilitation in China is slow, it has also made some achievements. At present, a new industrial injury insurance system has been initially formed, which combines industrial injury compensation with accident prevention and vocational rehabilitation. The newly promulgated Regulations on Work-related Injury Insurance further stipulates (1) that firstly, "promoting work-related injury prevention and vocational rehabilitation" is an important guiding ideology for the formulation of the regulations, and it is placed in the headline position of the regulations, indicating that China not only attaches importance to economic compensation for workers with work-related injuries, but also attaches importance to work-related injury prevention and vocational rehabilitation. (two) the cost of rehabilitation treatment for injured workers in medical institutions that have signed service agreements shall be paid from the industrial injury insurance fund in accordance with the provisions of these regulations. (3) Workers with work-related injuries may install artificial limbs, orthotics, artificial eyes, dentures and wheelchairs and other auxiliary devices due to their daily life or employment needs, and the required expenses shall be paid from the work-related injury insurance fund according to the standards stipulated by the state. (4) For employees who are slightly injured, upon the employee's own proposal, the employee may terminate or terminate the labor relationship with the employer, and the employer shall pay a one-time medical subsidy for work-related injuries and disability employment subsidy.