JW Group Launches Industry's First Standard Workplace for Persons with Disabilities

[Asia Economy Reporter Cho Hyun-ui] The standard workplace for people with disabilities established by JW Group will officially begin operations from the new year.

On the 15th, according to JW Group, the subsidiary-type standard workplace for people with disabilities, "Saengmyeong Nuri," jointly invested by JW Pharmaceutical and JW Life Science, was launched.

After signing an agreement with the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled in September last year to establish a subsidiary-type standard workplace, JW Group set up Saengmyeong Nuri and hired one social worker and ten workers with developmental disabilities.

Since the implementation of the standard workplace system for people with disabilities in 2008, this is the first time a pharmaceutical company has operated such a workplace. The workers work four hours each in the morning and afternoon at the JW Dangjin Production Complex, handling tasks such as washing work uniforms and environmental cleaning. The social worker is responsible for creating a stable working environment for disabled workers and managing their physical and emotional well-being.

JW Group plans to hire six additional disabled workers by the first half of this year.

Seo Myung-jun, head of the product plant at JW Pharmaceutical, said, "JW Group is striving to help people with disabilities grow into healthy members of society," and added, "We hope that a culture where disabled and non-disabled people work together will spread throughout the pharmaceutical industry."

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