Information on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Korea ments (15%) without such approval. ② The Initial Report mentions the regulation that persons with disabilities are exempt from the application of minimum wages, but does not provide statistics on the total number of establishments or workers with disabilities that receive a per hour wage lower than the minimum wage with the approval of the Minister of Employment and Labor. 2) Recommendation ① The Convention requires State Parties to take appropriate measures to protect the rights of persons with disabilities so that equal pay can be received for equal work. Therefore, the government should first gain insight on the current state of all establishments that pay wages lower than the minimum wage to persons with disabilities and strictly manage and monitor them in order to prevent abuse of the minimum wage exemption. 17.2 Lack of reasonable accommodation for public servants with severe disabilities 1) Current status and problems ① Based on the Act on Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Persons, the Ministry of Employment and Labor operates a Work Assistant System where assistants provide support to qualified workers with severe disabilities in carrying out “additional work apart from the core job carried out by persons with disabilities at the workplace” with a limit of 172 hours per month. However, the Ministry does not provide work assistants to public servants with severe disabilities as they are not regarded as workers under the Labor Standards Act, and the Initial Report fails to point out this problem. ② The Ministry of Security and Public Administration (MSPA), which is entrusted with the employment, promotion and welfare of public servants, does provide NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 34