If the Employment Achievement Rate for Disabled Persons is Below 90%, Related Employment Performance Scores '0 Points'

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyunjung] The government is strengthening management performance evaluation indicators related to promoting the employment of persons with disabilities in public institutions and providing comprehensive consulting to public institutions with low employment rates.

On the 8th, the Ministry of Economy and Finance announced that it had prepared the "Public Institution Disability Employment Promotion Plan" and notified all public institutions. This plan was approved at the Public Institution Management Committee meeting chaired by Deputy Minister Koo Yoon-cheol on the 5th. The mandatory employment rate for persons with disabilities applied to public institutions under the Disability Employment Act was raised from 3.0% in 2016 to 3.2% in 2017 and 2018, and to 3.4% since last year. It will increase to 3.6% by 2023 and 3.8% by 2024.

First, the government will strengthen the management performance evaluation of each institution's employment of persons with disabilities. Currently, the minimum score is given to institutions with a disability employment achievement rate below 80%, but this will be expanded to those below 90%. This further strengthens the minimum score standard, which was raised from below 70% last year to below 80% this year. In addition, the degree of effort each institution makes to employ persons with disabilities will also be reflected in the performance evaluation as a non-quantitative indicator.

Comprehensive employment consulting by the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled will be provided to public institutions with poor performance. The target institutions are those whose disability employment rate has fallen below the statutory mandatory employment rate for two consecutive years and whose recent employment rate is below 80% of the mandatory employment rate. Based on last year, 93 public institutions fell into this category.

The consulting will diagnose the employment conditions for persons with disabilities at the target institutions, identify obstacles to employment, and propose tailored solutions such as ▲development of jobs for persons with disabilities ▲customized training ▲work support services for persons with disabilities ▲talent placement. This year, consulting will be conducted for all 13 public enterprises and quasi-governmental institutions among the 93 target institutions, and for other public institutions, it will be prioritized for 34 university hospitals and research institutes in the science and technology fields.

Along with this, the current system allowing excess employment of persons with severe disabilities, which is applied to public enterprises and quasi-governmental institutions, will be expanded to other public institutions. The excess employment system permits exceptional hiring beyond the quota (to be resolved within 3 years) and can be usefully utilized by institutions that find it difficult to immediately hire additional persons with disabilities due to few vacancies.

Meanwhile, comprehensive consulting under this plan will begin in the second half of this year, and the strengthening of management performance evaluation indicators and expansion of the excess employment system for persons with severe disabilities will be implemented from 2021 by revising related guidelines and the management performance evaluation manual by the end of this year.

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