On 24 December 2021, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) released the Employment Status of Persons with Disabilities in private enterprises and public agencies. According to the Law for Employment Promotion for Persons with Disabilities, the Ministry requires employers, who are obliged to employ persons with disabilities, to report on the employment status of persons with physical, intellectual, and mental disabilities as of June 1 every year, and report their findings.
The main points of the aggregated data are as follows.
<Private Enterprises> (whose statutory employment rate (SER) is 2.3%.)
<Public Agencies> (SER 2.6%; 2.5% for boards of education in prefectures, etc.) ※ Values in parentheses are those of the previous year.
Actual employment rate: 2.83% (2.83%)
Actual employment rate: 2.81% (2.73%)
Actual employment rate: 2.51% (2.41%)
Actual employment rate: 2.21% (2.05%) <Independent Administrative Agencies, etc.> (SER 2.6%)
Actual employment rate was 2.69% (2.64%). |
For more information, please visit the website below (Japanese only):
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_23014.html