Handicapped workers are those whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental deficiency or injury.
Labor Code · Training and Employment of Special · Chapter III – Handicapped Workers
Definition
Handicapped workers are those whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental deficiency or injury.
Sec. 4 (a), Chapter I, Title I of R.A. No. 7277 defines “disabled persons” as “those suffering from restriction of 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.”
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