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Labor Institute analysis…Wage gap between disabled and non-disabled is also larger in large companies
(SEOUL, Dec. 12) – Larger companies are less likely to comply with their disability employment obligations, according to a new study by the Labor Institute. Companies with more than 1,000 workers were only half as likely as companies with 50 to 99 workers to comply with their obligation to hire people with disabilities.
According to “Disability Employment Trends by Industry, Occupation, and Company Size,” published in the December issue of the Korea Institute of Labor Research’s Labor Review on Sunday, the share of people with disabilities (about 220,000) among all full-time workers is about 1.5 percent, according to the Korea Disability Employment Corporation’s 2022 Corporate Disability Employment Survey.
By company size, the proportion was no more than 1.0% for companies with less than 50 employees, then increased to 1.9% for companies with 50 to 99 employees, 2.4% for companies with 100 to 299 employees, and decreased to 2.0% for companies with more than 1,000 employees.
The rate of fulfillment of the obligation to hire people with disabilities was significantly lower for larger organizations.
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The report interprets this to mean that for organizations with 100 or more employees, failure to comply with the mandatory employment rate for people with disabilities results in the payment of a disability employment levy, but as the size of the organization grows to a level where it is not constrained by the levy, the rate drops again.
*Please note this is a Korean article
Source: YONHAP NEWS AGENCY
