For a minority of the population, however, the struggle to secure employment is hardly over. Finding a job poses a perpetual challenge to PWDs. Discrimination' and 'Skills'. A major hindrance to gainful employment of PWD is the inaccessibility and high cost of public transport in Singapore. This poses an obstacle mainly to the non-ambulant.
Endless debates abound on the issue of public transport for disabled people.
LTA is also currently studying the feasibility of providing lifts in the existing 48 MRT stations. Low-floor buses, which will be phased in gradually to make it easier for the less mobile to board and alight from buses. Prospective boss meets potential worker, realises she is blind and retracts initial offer. A stark, but not an uncommon scenario at all, as job-seeking PWDs will tell you. However, no definite conclusion about employers' current attitudes can be drawn, due to the lack of available research.