By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-18 10:44:41 | Updated at 2024-11-18 12:34:52
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Hong Kong lawmakers have urged the government to hire more disabled workers and impose key performance indicators to address the issue after it was revealed that such employees made up 1.5 per cent of civil servants.
The Labour and Welfare Bureau revealed on Monday in a Legislative Council panel meeting that 2,513 serving civil servants with disabilities were employed by the government as of March. The civil service has a workforce of about 170,000.
According to latest figures released by the bureau, the unemployment rate for people with disabilities was 11 per cent in 2020, higher than the citywide rate of 5.8 per cent that year.
Lawmaker Tik Chi-yuen urged the government to set a KPI for hiring people with disabilities and suggested that a law be enacted that would set a quota for hiring disabled workers in the civil service.
“The government and the companies that receive government subsidies should all set KPIs for hiring workers with disabilities,” he said, adding that the KPI could set as 2 per cent.
He cited South Korea as an example, saying disabled workers accounted for 3 per cent of the country’s civil service.
