Gyeongbuk Office of Education to Hire 159 Disabled Persons Next Year... Achieves 3.76% Employment Rate in First Half of This Year

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) is promoting the "2024 Hope Job Project for Persons with Disabilities" to expand self-reliance opportunities for persons with disabilities and to practice warm-hearted Gyeongbuk education.

According to the "Act on the Promotion of Employment and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities," national and local governments that employ 50 or more non-public officials on a regular basis must employ persons with disabilities at a rate equal to or higher than the mandatory employment rate stipulated by relevant laws.

Gyeongbuk Office of Education.

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education is actively fulfilling its obligation to employ persons with disabilities by creating separate job opportunities for persons with disabilities at affiliated institutions and public schools within the province through the "Hope Job Project for Persons with Disabilities" and hiring workers accordingly.

In 2024, 159 persons with disabilities are scheduled to be employed at 128 institutions (schools), and a survey will be conducted on the willingness to participate in the project targeting all institutions (schools) in the province.

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education has made various efforts to expand employment for persons with disabilities.

In particular, through institutional improvements such as special exceptions for managing the quota of disabled workers and utilizing the manpower pool of the Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities (Gyeongbuk branch), it has secured flexibility and efficiency in employing persons with disabilities and fully supports the labor costs of the Hope Job Project for Persons with Disabilities.

As a result of these efforts, the employment rate of persons with disabilities in the first half of 2023 reached 3.76%, which exceeds the mandatory employment rate of 3.6% for 2023.

Jung Jong-hee, head of the School Support Division at the Gyeongbuk Office of Education, said, "We will strive to expand self-reliance opportunities for persons with disabilities by providing jobs for disabled workers and to realize a warm society where we live together."

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