Part III. Establishing the base for independence and participation in the society
Section 2. Measures for employment promotion
- To provide instructions to private enterprises and national and local governments that have not yet achieved required employment rate for employing more than certain amount of persons with physical and intellectual disabilities in accordance with "Law for Employment Promotion, etc, of Persons with Disabilities".
- To expand job categories in accordance with ability and expertise of persons with disabilities through establishing a manual for employment of persons with disabilities, utilizing special subsidiary system, providing subsidies to private enterprises and revising conditions for disqualification for persons with disabilities.
- To promote various types of employment and work accessible to persons with disabilities as well as promoting employment and work at home by utilizing information technology and supporting for running new businesses.
- To promote vocational rehabilitation, focused on collaboration with institutions involved in health, welfare, and education through Public Employment Security Offices, Vocational Centers for Persons with Disabilities, Employment and Living Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities and Employment Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities.
- To support a transition to employment through trial employment and short-term job aptitude training.
- To promote human resources development of persons with disabilities through admitting them to general human resources development facilities and providing them with vocational training at human resources development centers for the disabled.
[ Principal measures implemented ]
- The exclusion rate system as relief measure for alleviating the required employment rate has been reduced by 10 % points regardless of job categories since 1st April 2004. In addition the exclusion personnel system for national and local governments was limited to some job categories and the relief rate was reduced to be transferred to the exclusion rate system.
- Subsidy system for alleviating employers' economic burden in employing persons with disabilities funded by levies has been expanding its scope of the subsidy system since April 2003 to include persons who suffered mental disease while working and persons with mental disease whose working hours was more than 15 hours and less than 20 hours a week.
- 25 Japanese athletes participated in the 6th International Abilympics held in India.
