## Overview

# FY2013 Promotion of Employment Support for Persons with Disabilities – Outline of Measures Related to Employment for Persons with Disabilities –

### I Reinforcement of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Support, etc. and Further Reinforcement of Local Employment Support

1. Implementation of support for small- and medium-sized enterprises in dealing with the raised statutory employment rate

The job-matching functions of Hello Works will be reinforced through implementation of “team support” that provides consistent support from employment through to workplace adaptation, mainly by Hello Works, but also in cooperation with the relevant institutions, including local welfare institutions and schools for special needs education, etc. In addition, support for small- and medium-sized enterprises will be reinforced through enhancing the consultation desk system for enterprises in thereby making advice on issues concerning employment of persons with disabilities available. Instructions on attaining the legally mandated employment quota ratio will also be reinforced in responding to the raised statutory employment rate.

### 2. Creation of projects for promoting transfer from welfare, education, medical care to employment

In order to eliminate the worries persons with disabilities may have about employment and the worries of small- and medium-sized enterprises about employing persons with disabilities, specialized coordinators will be newly placed at Labour Bureaus to comprehensively and effectively promote on-the-job training in cooperation with the relevant institutions, including welfare facilities, schools for special needs education, and medical institutions, etc., and the transfer from welfare, education, medical care to employment promoted through holding employment support seminars and implementing tours of recruiting workplaces, etc.

### 3. Implementation of community-based employment support in a labor and welfare collaboration

Efforts will be made to increase the number of locations where “Employment and Vocational Life Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities” to provide integrated guidance and support both in employment and daily lives in their neighborhoods and reinforce the functions of workplace adaptation support, etc

## I I Enhancement/Reinforcement of Close Support Measures according to the Characteristics of Disabilities and Employment Style

### 1. Implementation of comprehensive employment support according to the characteristics of individual disabilities (1) Enhancement of specialized support for persons with disabilities at Hello Works

In response to a rapid increase in the number of new job seekers with mental disabilities visiting Hello Works comprehensive and continued support will be provided through the placement of “comprehensive supporters for the employment of persons with mental disabilities” who can then provide consistent support for persons with mental disabilities, including counseling, raising the awareness of enterprises, implementation of on-the-job training, and follow-ups after employment, etc.

## (2) Implementation of model projects in supporting employment of persons with mental disabilities in cooperation of medical institutions

Model projects to promote efforts/cooperation for employment support at medical institutions will be implemented in effective cooperation with medical institutions in thereby verifying measures taken to promote employment of persons with mental disabilities.

(3) Implementation of workplace adaptation/employment support for persons with mental/developmental disabilities, etc. by Employment and Vocational Life Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities

Workplace adaptation support for persons with mental/developmental disabilities, etc. will be reinforced through placing workplace adaptation support staff members who have specialized in and will be responsible for workplace adaptation support at Employment and Vocational Life Support Centers for Persons with Disabilities.

## (4) Enhancement/reinforcement of support measures according to the characteristics of the individual disabilities of persons with developmental disabilities

The increased need for employment support for persons with developmental disabilities in recent years has resulted in the number of job seekers with developmental disabilities being expected to increase even more in the future, and hence a greater need for systematic employment support. Efforts will therefore need to be made in promoting and securing employment of persons with developmental disabilities through enhancement/reinforcement of support systems for persons with developmental disabilities at Hello Works and the provision of subsidies for business operators employing persons with developmental disabilities, along with the implementation of appropriate employment management, etc.

## (5) Enhancement/reinforcement of support measures for persons with intractable diseases

In consideration of the increased need for employment support for persons with intractable diseases efforts will need to be made in promoting and securing employment of persons with intractable diseases through newly placing “employment supporters for persons with intractable diseases” at Hello Works in thereby reinforcing cooperation between Hello Works and Intractable Disease Consultation and Support Centers and the provision of subsidies for business operators employing persons with intractable diseases, along with the implementation of appropriate employment management, etc.

### 2. Promotion of challenge employment

Persons with intellectual/mental disabilities, etc. will be employed as part-time workers at prefectural labor offices and Hello Works and then their transition to employment at general enterprises, etc. promoted according to the 1 to 3 years of work experience they gain there.

## I II Review of the Promotion System for Employment of Persons with Disabilities toward Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

### 1. Review of the promotion system for employment of persons with disabilities toward ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In responding to the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the revised Act for the Promotion of Employment for Persons with Disabilities was approved, and which includes provisions that prohibit discrimination on the basis of a disability in the areas of work/employment and measures which ensure the provision of reasonable consideration at workplaces, etc., after taking into consideration discussions of the Labour Policy Council.