Gyeonggi-do Human Rights Center: "Failure to Meet Mandatory Employment Rate for Disabled in Affiliated Organizations is Discriminatory Act"

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] The Gyeonggi-do Human Rights Center conducted an ex officio investigation on six public institutions under the province that were not properly fulfilling their mandatory employment of persons with disabilities, and reported five of them for "unfair discriminatory acts," recommending improvements to the system.

The Human Rights Center also decided to inspect the entire hiring process for persons with disabilities across all public institutions under the province.

According to Gyeonggi-do on the 17th, the Human Rights Center conducted an ex officio investigation on six institutions subject to mandatory employment of persons with disabilities among 21 public institutions under Gyeonggi-do. It ruled that the reasons given by these institutions, such as "no applicants or qualified candidates" and "unable to meet the mandatory employment rate due to changes in staff numbers," were unfair discriminatory acts lacking rationality.

The main recommendations from the Human Rights Center included: ▲immediately announcing recruitment for persons with disabilities when there is a vacancy in the mandatory employment quota ▲reviewing and improving any discriminatory elements that may exist in the hiring process for persons with disabilities ▲actively utilizing occasional internal recruitment related to hiring and screening methods and expanding and implementing the "separate recruitment screening for persons with disabilities" ▲fulfilling the obligation to provide "reasonable accommodations" that consider the type and degree of disability of applicants or examinees with disabilities at each stage of the hiring process ▲checking and improving the work environment of currently employed persons with disabilities to determine whether a lack of applicants or examinees with disabilities is due to insufficient "reasonable accommodations," which may cause avoidance of public institutions.

Furthermore, the Human Rights Center recommended improvements to the hiring procedures for persons with disabilities for Gyeonggi-do and all public institutions under the province.

A representative from the Human Rights Center stated, "The failure of public institutions to meet the mandatory employment rate for persons with disabilities is a problem at the time of investigation but can be a persistent issue. Therefore, we plan to continuously monitor the fulfillment of the mandatory employment rate not only in public institutions but also in the Gyeonggi-do provincial office." He emphasized, "We will review systems and policies to resolve ongoing or repeated failures to meet the mandatory employment rate for persons with disabilities."

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