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Record placements for disabled job-seekers
The Labour Department's Selective Placement Division (SPD) has set a new record in job placement for people with a disability in 1995 with 1,422 successful
cases.
Senior Labour Officer (Selective Placement), Mr Cheung Tak-tsai, said the figure was encouraging in view of the unemployment situation in Hong Kong last
year.
"The Government's escalating efforts in promoting job opportunities for the disabled and the changing attitude of the public, especially employers, towards the disabled, also played a part in achieving this," he said.
During the year, SPD had organised many activities to enhance public understanding of the working abilities of the disabled.
A good example was the Seminar on Open Employment for People with a Disability' 95 which attracted 350 participants including employers, human resource managers and rehabilitation professionals.
"Through direct contact with the disabled at the seminar, employers gained a better understanding of their potentials and became more receptive to them," Mr Cheung said.
A series of four 30-minute TV programmes Under the Same Sky Part II - were jointly produced with RTHK to promote acceptance of the disabled at the workplace. The programmes were popular and had attracted more than 910,000 viewers.
Articles with quizzes were published in the Easy Finder magazine in August to dispel misconceptions about disabilities. The articles were well received and the quizzes had attracted 2,463 entries.
During the year, SPD had staged four exhibitions and delivered about 40 talks for personnel managers' clubs and employers' associations to promote public understanding of disabled employees. In addition, newsletters were distributed to about 20,000 employers.