SK Corporation awarded 'True Company' prize for exemplary employment of people with disabilities

[Asia Economy Reporter So-yeon Park] SK Inc. has been awarded the 2020 Grand Prize for True Company (a trusted company for disabled employment) by the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled and the Ministry of Employment and Labor as the best company for employing people with disabilities.

On the 13th, SK Inc. announced that it received high evaluations for discovering various job roles for people with disabilities, providing practical support such as training programs for vocational education for the disabled, and actively conducting recruitment, which led to winning this award.

In particular, expanding employment mainly for people with severe disabilities, resulting in nearly half of the total disabled employees being people with severe disabilities, was also cited as one of the reasons for the grand prize selection.

SK Inc.'s employment rate for people with disabilities was 3% in 2019, nearly doubling compared to two years earlier, and this year it has increased to 3.54%, exceeding the legally mandated employment quota for people with disabilities in private companies (3.1% of total employees).

SK Inc.'s business division C&C has been hiring employees with disabilities mainly in IT roles, and last year, to increase employment of people with severe disabilities who face relatively more difficulties in finding jobs, it conducted specialized barista training for people with disabilities in cooperation with the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled.

Including last year's barista training graduates and newly hired employees this year, 36 people are working as baristas at SK Inc. C&C's in-house cafe. Currently, the total number of employees with disabilities working as IT specialists and in-house baristas reaches 97, of which 49 are people with severe disabilities.

Additionally, the youth disability ICT (Information and Communication Technology) expert training and employment support program "SIAT (Smart IT Advanced)," which has been operating since 2017, has produced 67 graduates, of whom 58 have successfully found employment at SK Inc. C&C and more than 20 major domestic companies.

Furthermore, SK Inc. is also dedicated to creating a happy workplace for employees with disabilities. To support stable company life for people with disabilities, SK Inc. has appointed a social worker as an HR manager, provided text interpretation services for the hearing impaired, supplied assistive technology devices for people with severe disabilities, prepared separate rest areas for disabled baristas, and conducted regular counseling to help workplace adaptation, demonstrating meticulous efforts.

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