About us

The Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia (ZDIS) was established in 1969 by municipal disabled people's organisations active in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia with the aim of providing mutual assistance, asserting common interests and preserving the protection of disabled workers' rights.

The largest representative disabled people’s organisation of Slovenia is a voluntary, independent, autonomous, non-governmental and non-profit federation of local disabled people's organisations, and was granted the status of a disabled people’s organisation under the Disabled People's Organisations Act by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs.

On the basis of the same act, the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs has recognised the Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia as a representative organisation of disabled workers and people with physical impairments.

The Federation of Disabled Workers of Slovenia brings together over 60,000 members organised in 69 local disabled people's organisations, including:

• disabled workers under the Pension and Disability Insurance Act;
• other people with disabilities who do not have the status of disabled workers, and who. due to acquired or congenital impairments and disorders – conditioned or created by the physical and social environment – cannot by themselves partly or entirely satisfy personal, family and social needs in their living and working environment;
• legal representatives of people with disabilities, and
• other persons who in various ways support operations of the organisations and of the Federation in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.