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JEED
Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities
Support for Employers Concerning Employment of Persons with Disabilities
1 Counseling on Employing Persons with Disabilities
In order to promote employment and employment security for persons with disabilities, it is necessary to improve their working environment.
For this purpose, JEED and Prefectural Associations for Employment Support, to which JEED assigns business operations, provide consultation, advice, and assistance in connection with the improvement of the human and material resources required for employing persons with disabilities by providing information on various disability employment cases as well as information on various incentives and job-related assistive technology.
▲Counseling for employers
Counseling
JEED gives advice for employing persons with disabilities for the first time and for helping them settle into their jobs.
Follow-up
Based on the information and materials collected from companies that have exhibited outstanding performance in the employment of persons with disabilities, advice and support concerning stable and continued employment of persons with disabilities is provided targeting companies to which grants have been given.
Support for Workplace Adaptation Support Team
To build a working environment where persons with disabilities are able to fully exercise their abilities and to promote adjustment to work, support is provided for enterprises employing five or more persons with disabilities to promote and develop a "Workplace Adaptation Support Team"
2 Seminars on Disability Employment
With the objective of deepening employers' understanding about disability employment and offering expertise regarding employment management and practical guidance in the workplace, various seminars based on local needs and characteristics are held. In addition, the materials used for seminars are compiled.
3 Training Courses for the Qualification of Vocational Consultant for Persons with Disabilities
Under the stipulations of the Law for Employment Promotion, etc., of the Disabled, enterprises employing five or more persons with disabilities are required to appoint a vocational consultant who will offer advice and guidance to disabled workers on all aspects of vocational life. JEED conducts training courses for this qualification.
4 Manuals and Other Materials through the Development of Practical Techniques for Promoting Disability Employment
Practical techniques are developed to facilitate the expansion of employment field and to solve problems regarding the disability employment. Reports will be compiled for distribution. In addition, user-friendly manuals, and other materials covering successful cases of disability employment classified by industry and type of disability will be provided for assistance to employers.
▲Compilation of successful cases
5 Support for Employers Based on Support Plans
Local Vocational Centers for Persons with Disabilities provide systematic support to employers who are planning to employ persons with disabilities and employers who have already employed disabled workers for their specific problems in employment management. They create a Support Plan for Employers based on an analysis of individual employer’s needs and problems in employment management for disabled workers and provide job coaches as well as periodical follow-up services.
6 Management Support Programs
In order to provide support for employers who require specialized knowledge and expertise regarding employment management for persons with disabilities, vocational counselors and employment advisors for persons with disabilities provide advice for the solving of problems in cooperation with specialists from the fields of medicine, social education, social welfare, psychology, vocational ability development, engineering and employment management.
7 Reference Service for Successful Cases of Disability Employment
A website has been created that introduces successful cases of disability employment and utilization of various grants gathered from businesses around the country that are using a variety of successful approaches in employing persons with disabilities as well as examples placed in the monthly journal, "Hataraku Hiroba (Working People's Plaza) ". The site can be searched by type of business or type of disability.
"Reference Service for Cases of Disability Employment" (Japanese only)
▲Tokyo Area Office
8 Promotion of Job-related Assistive Technology
The JEED website is being used to spread the use of equipment and software that support persons with disabilities and the elderly in their work. It is hoped that the availability of such assistive technology will encourage companies to hire and continue to employ persons with severe disabilities in particular. To further promote the use of assistive technology, the equipment is lent free of charge to employers and employers' organizations for a fixed period of time.
Lending of the equipment is handled through the website or at the five JEED area offices nationwide.
"Resources for Job-related Assistive Technology" (Japanese only)
▲Information on Assistive Technology
9 Information on Home-based Employment and Work
In order to promote home-based employment and work for severely disabled persons, JEED has set up a website called "Challenge Home Office".
http://www.challenge.jeed.or.jp/ (Japanese only)
JEED Area Offices (Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka)
At the area offices, employment advisors for persons with disabilities provide employers with advice and assistance concerning various issues that arise in the attempt to increase employment of persons with disabilities. The offices provide information on disability employment and promote the use of job-related assistive equipment. They also lend videos to help in employment of persons with disabilities and provide Braille translation services.