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Lotte Construction Operates Cafe at Dunchon Apartment Site in Gangdong-gu

Lotte Construction employees are receiving coffee they ordered at a barista cafe for people with disabilities within the Lotte Construction site.

Lotte Construction announced on the 20th that it has opened and is operating a cafe staffed by baristas with disabilities at the Dunchon Apartment site in Gangdong-gu, Seoul.

In August last year, Lotte Construction opened the cafe for baristas with disabilities at the Dunchon Apartment site in collaboration with the certified workplace for people with disabilities, "Hyangginaeneun Saramdeul." This initiative was recognized as presenting a new model for employing people with disabilities through discovering new job roles for individuals with severe disabilities.

The cafe operates from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., staffed by one general manager and five baristas with disabilities.

Lotte Construction continuously conducts disability awareness education alongside the implementation of mandatory employment of people with disabilities at each site.

Additionally, the company is actively expanding employment in connection with certified workplaces for people with disabilities.

Meanwhile, to strengthen its policy for stabilizing employment of people with disabilities, on April 19, ahead of Disability Day on April 20, Lotte Construction signed an agreement with the Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities at the Dunchon Apartment site to promote employment of people with disabilities, and also signed a support agreement for employing individuals with severe disabilities with the social enterprise "Hyangginaeneun Saramdeul."

Kim Daegyu, head of the Seoul Eastern Branch of the Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities, said, "Due to the nature of the construction industry, there has been a tendency to avoid employing people with disabilities, so Lotte Construction’s practical example of employing people with disabilities will become a model case for disability employment in the construction sector."

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