Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2005, Publicación: 95ª reunión CIT (2006)

Convenio sobre la readaptación profesional y el empleo (personas inválidas), 1983 (núm. 159) - República de Corea (Ratificación : 1999)

1. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report, which was received in October 2004. The Committee notes the Government’s strategy under the first and second Five-Year Plans to address issues on both the supply and demand sides of the employment of people with disabilities. In order to assist employers in the hiring of workers with disabilities, the Government plans to develop employment models, management aids, and methods of vocational ability analysis by disability type in addition to government subsidization and tax incentives. Providing workers with disabilities with vocational training and employment support services will aim to increase their employability. Under the expanded second Five-Year Plan, the Government anticipates that 60,000 persons with disabilities will enter the labour market.

2. The Government reports that the employment rate for people with disabilities has increased annually by an average of 0.1 per cent since 1998 when the first Five-Year Plan was initiated and as of December 2003 stood at 1.18 per cent. This figure, however, still has not reached the compulsory hiring rate of 2 per cent. The Committee would be grateful if the Government continued to provide employment statistics in its next report and indicate any problems that may have arisen in order to promote employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the open labour market (Article 3 of the Convention).

3. The Committee also notes with interest the Government’s proposal under the second Five-Year Plan to improve working conditions for people with disabilities by implementing institutional devices to ban disability discrimination. The Committee would appreciate further information on the nature of the institutional devices as well as indicators concerning the quality of employment that would show the progress achieved by the implementation of these measures.