NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – July 2022 ㅇ Sheltered workshops should make efforts for the transition to general labor market, but they are rather passive. This is attributable to the structure where each sheltered workshop is solely responsible to pay for the wage of the disabled workers with profits generated through professional management activities other than rehabilitation services. When competent worker with disabilities is converted to a competitive labor market, they have to bear losses such as reduced productivity and profits. ㅇ In December 2019, government ministries jointly announced ‘a plan to support low-wage workers with disabilities in vocational rehabilitation center’ and implemented ‘a project to support transition of disabled workers excluded from the minimum wage’. However, a total of 134 people(2,625 participants) over the two years, that is, only 0.8% of people with disabilities using the sheltered workshops succeeded in switching jobs.33 □ Recommendations ㅇ The government should establish detailed plan to reduce dependency on the sheltered workshops which makes it difficult to move from the low-wage structure or integrate into the competitive employment market, and devise alternative employment policies for persons with severe and developmental disabilities including jobs in public employment based on rights. 28-4 34 Mandatory disability employment system and efforts to enhance employment of women with disabilities □ Current status and problems ㅇ The government stated in the national report that the rate of the disabled hired in workplace obligated to hire persons with disabilities is increasing annually, but out of institutions required to hire persons with disabilities, the rate of institutions achieved mandatory employment rate is still less than 50%, and the implementation rate of mandatory employment and employment rate of persons with disabilities by large enterprises with more than 1000 regular employees is 47