The mandatory employment rate for people with disabilities at private corporations will be gradually raised to 3.5% by 2029. The government will ease regulations to reduce the burden on corporations while expanding employment consulting and support.
According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) on the 10th, the government reviewed and approved a partial amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities at a Cabinet meeting that day.
The amendment centers on gradually raising the mandatory employment rate for people with disabilities at private corporations to expand job opportunities. The current mandatory rate at private corporations is 3.1%, which will be raised to 3.3% in 2027 and 3.5% in 2029.
The ministry said, "While the public institutional sector's mandatory employment rate for people with disabilities has been raised by 0.2 percentage points every two to three years recently, the private sector has been frozen at 3.1% since 2019." The mandatory employment rate in the public institutional sector was raised from 3.4% in 2019 to 3.6% in 2022 and 3.8% in 2024.
The ministry will support corporations in fulfilling their mandatory hiring and improving regulations to minimize the burden on corporations. It will improve the method of imposing arrears charges from a monthly to a daily basis. For corporations with low disability employment, it will expand employment consulting. It will introduce a new incentive to improve disability employment for 50–99-person corporations that reach the mandatory employment rate. In addition, it will review ways to diversify employers' means of fulfilling their employment obligations.