Actual State of Employment Support for Persons with Disabilities as Both Workers and Welfare Service Users in Rural Areas

Abstract

The field of employment support for persons with disabilities as both workers and welfare service users aims to achieve a society in which people with and people without disabilities can work together by combining labor and welfare initiatives. Society will serve as a model of labor policy in the future.

Support centers for continuous employment type A are necessary for employing people, who have difficulty getting jobs at general business facilities when they compete with general workers in a competitive labor market, Detailed regulations, however, are not set for their operation, and work training programs and the actual state of their operation and their support are not clearly known. Consequently, the author conducted interview research for business owners of Type A Centers satisfying the designated standard under the Act on Comprehensive Services and Support for Persons with Disabilities in rural and urban areas to clarify the actual state of operation and support by the Type A Centers, the position of Type A Centers in the employment support system for persons with disabilities, and the structure of Type A Centers for effective operation in accordance with location characteristics.

The report clarifies the following three points based on the analysis result of Type A Centers in rural areas.