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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1976
FORTY-FOUR
DISABLED FOUND WORK ******
THE NUMBER OF DISABLED PEOPLE PLACED TO WORK LAST MONTH BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT'S JOB PLACEMENT UNIT SOARED TO 44. AN INCREASE OF EIGHT COMPARED WITH THE DECEMBER TOTAL.
THE HIGHEST FIGURE FOR 1975.
THIS WAS
OF THE DISABLED PEOPLE EMPLOYED, TEN WERE BLIND, A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OVER THE PRECEDING MONTH'S FIGURE OF THREE.
THE MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO WERE FOUND WORK WERE EMPLOYED AS MACHINE-SEWING WORKERS, PRESS MACHINE OPERATORS AND PACKERS.
SEVEN WERE EMPLOYED ON A PIECE-RATE BASIS AND 24 ON DAILY RATES RANGING FROM $15 TO $20.
THE SALARY OF THE OTHERS VARIES BETWEEN $200 AND $550 A MONTH.
MR. CHAN SHIU-WING, OFFICER-IN-CHARGE OF THE JOB PLACEMENT UNIT, ASSURED EMPLOYERS THAT DISABLED WORKERS HAD BEEN WELL PREPARED BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT BEFORE PLACING TO A JOB.
+THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR THE DISABLED IN A NUMBER OF TRADES INCLUDING CARPENTRY, ELECTRONICS, PRINTING, METAL WORK AND MACHINE-SEWING,+ MR. CHAN SAID.