Question No.
3.
MR. TAM (in Cantonese) : Sir, will the Government consider
some more effective measures ? For example, can we learn from
it mandatory that employers
other countries
and
make
should employ a certain ratio of disabled people?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, we have from
has been
time to time considered this idea which, as Mr. TAM says,
has been tried elsewhere. It is an idea on which opinions
are very divided. The general impression we have had from talking to people involved in the employment of disabled
people in those countries which use such a system
rather unfavourable. Several problems arise. One is
that employers, in practice, seem to be able to evade such legislation very easily and the net result tends to be negative.
Because of this kind of legislation, employer attitudes tend to become very negative and those trying to find jobs for disabled
people find their work actually gets more difficult as a
result. Because of this kind of feedback, we have so far
not followed this particular course.
MR. POON CHI-FAI (in Cantonese) : Sir, will the Government
of
inform this Council the success rate of finding jobs for the
disabled people ?
Does the Civil Service give priority
to disabled people in posts for which they are suitable?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, the only figures
we have on success rates are the Labour Department's Selective
figures of registrations, vacancies
Placement
Service
and placements.
I, personally, do not regard this as a