36.2% of Companies with 50+ Employees Fail to Hire – Need for Increased Employment Incentives
【Able News Lee Seulgi Reporter】Despite being legally required to hire people with disabilities, 36.2% of companies claim there are “no suitable jobs” and refuse to recruit disabled employees. Most of these companies have not hired a single person with a disability in the past three years and have openly stated they have no intention of doing so.
According to the 2024 Corporate Employment Status Survey for Persons with Disabilities released by the Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities (KEAD) on the 20th, as of 2023, 59,033 companies employed at least one person with a disability, accounting for only 3.3% of all businesses. The total number of employees with disabilities stood at 248,781, making up 1.55% of the total workforce.
Among all businesses, 34,665 companies had 50 or more employees, making them subject to mandatory disability employment requirements. Of these, 63.8% employed people with disabilities, with an overall employment rate of 2.41%. However, 36.2% of these obligated companies did not hire any employees with disabilities.
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While 27% of all employees were in clerical positions, 44.5% of employees with disabilities were in elementary labor jobs. The proportion of disabled employees in managerial, professional, and sales roles was less than half compared to the overall workforce.
Among companies that failed to hire people with disabilities, 91.8% of those with 50 or more employees had not employed a single disabled worker in the past three years. Furthermore, 89.9% of these companies stated they had “no intention of hiring” people with disabilities. The primary reason cited was a “lack of suitable jobs for people with disabilities or difficulty identifying appropriate roles” (53.2%).
*Please note this is a Korean article
Source: Able News
