Abstract
Under the Handicapped Person’s Employment Promotion Law, it is obligatory for employers to raise the hiring rate of physically or mentally challenged persons up to a certain level.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare raised the legal employment rate of handicapped people to 2.0% from 1.8% in April 2013. Contrary to the increasing responsibilities of hiring the handicapped people, many private enterprises hane yet to attain the legal employment rate.
A survey conducted in June 2013 about the situation of handicapped people employment showed that the hiring rate of handicapped people in Toyota Kosei Hospital was as low as 0.99%. To deal with this stark reality, the Department of Office Management in our hospital started to carry out a series of activities to increase the employment rate of the handicapped.
As a result, a mentally challenged person got a position for the first time in the Department of Clinical Laboratory. The Department of Office Management sought cooperation is demanded from the department of clinical laboratory. This paper reports, our activities and the present situation surrounding the new employee, and dwells on the prospect of employing the handicapped.
