Public institutions and companies are required to hire a certain percentage of disabled individuals. If not, they must pay a burden fee. This is a system aimed at increasing the hiring of disabled individuals, but currently, only the payment of the burden fee has significantly increased. Today (the 11th), Sisen360 will examine the reality of disabled employment.
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The list of non-compliance with the obligation to hire disabled individuals, released at the end of last year. 328 national institutions and companies were named. One company that has been in the top rankings for two consecutive years hired only 1 disabled person out of the mandatory 15.
[Corporate representative: While we agree with the intent of the system, we prioritize job suitability, so it is difficult to hire according to the mandatory employment rate.]
There were local governments that have been on the non-compliance list for two years as well.
[Local government representative: Qualified individuals usually need to apply, but there is a situation where disabled individuals are less likely to apply.]
The rate of compliance with the obligation to hire disabled individuals has decreased from 51.2% in 2010 to 43.1% in 2023. 6 out of 10 have paid the burden fee instead of hiring, which has greatly increased the scale of the employment burden fee. According to the latest data obtained by SBS, it reached 895.3 billion won last year, more than doubling in 9 years.
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The employment rate remains at 33.8%. In contrast, the overall population has seen an increase in both areas during the same period.
[Seong Mi-jeong & Oh Gyeong-hwan / Hearing-impaired individuals (voice recitation): We have not given up on economic activity. Everyone really wants to get a job in a company, but they keep getting rejected.]
Among the 900,000 disabled individuals working, one-third are permanently employed; the rest are engaged in part-time jobs or micro-businesses.
[Kang Dong-wook / Professor at Hankyung National University Welfare Convergence Department: When the economic situation worsens, the first to be hit are the vulnerable groups. Among the vulnerable groups, the disabled receive the greatest damage.]
*Please note this is a Korean article
Source: SBS NEWS
