SK Shieldus Wins '2023 True Company' Award for Expanding Employment of People with Disabilities

Leading the Way in Creating Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities

SK Shieldus announced on the 27th that it won the grand prize at the 2023 Disabled Employment Trust Company 'True Company' awards hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled.

True Company is a reward system that awards the Minister of Employment and Labor Prize to institutions and companies that have made efforts to expand employment for the disabled in connection with the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled. Since 2006, it has been awarded annually by comprehensively evaluating ▲the employment rate of the disabled ▲the increase in the number of disabled employees ▲efforts to expand disability-friendly employment ▲improvements in the working environment for the disabled.

At the '2023 True Company Award Ceremony' held on the 26th at the SK Shielders Pangyo Office, Sang-Yeol Choi, Head of Corporate Culture (second from the left), Tae-Heon Kim, Head of Talent Support Group (left), Jeong-Hoon Cha, Employment Promotion Director of Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled (second from the right), and Sung-Cheon Kim, Head of Gyeonggi East Branch (right), are taking a commemorative photo.

SK Shieldus received the grand prize in recognition of its efforts to improve awareness of the disabled and expand employment by participating in the nail care service for the hearing impaired, 'Seomseom Oksu.' Seomseom Oksu is a public interest project that creates jobs for severely hearing-impaired women who have difficulty finding employment, based on available resources of public institutions such as major railway stations nationwide, in cooperation with the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled and Korea Railroad Corporation. SK Shieldus is involved in overall store operations including workplace establishment, security equipment installation, and personnel management, and plans to open a new branch at Gwangmyeong Station this year following Yongsan Station and Anyang Station branches.

In addition, SK Shieldus was highly evaluated for continuously increasing the proportion of disabled members through job development and promotion of standard workplaces. It is also actively supporting the employment of trainees by encouraging participation in SIAT (Seed), a program for nurturing and employing young disabled ICT experts.

For students of the National Seoul School for the Disabled, who have fewer opportunities for career education compared to non-disabled students, SK Shieldus has been consistently conducting Taekwondo classes and nail art experiences. Based on field feedback, it is expanding these into mentoring classes in various fields such as white hacking.

Choi Sang-yeol, Head of Corporate Culture at SK Shieldus (Executive Director), said, "We will continue to not only increase the quantity of jobs for the disabled but also strengthen disability awareness and a corporate culture of coexistence, and establish comprehensive support measures for disabled members."

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