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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 regional business trust corporations, to which JEED assigns business operations, provide counseling, advice, and assistance in connection with the improvement of the human resources and working environment required for employing persons with disabilities by providing information on various disability employment cases as well as information on various subsidies 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
By making use of collected information and data on workplace improvement and other successful cases, JEED offers counseling and assistance concerning stable and continued employment of persons with disabilities to companies that have promoted disability employment through the use of subsidies and other activities.
2 Training Courses for the Qualification of Vocational Life Consultant for Persons with Disabilities
Under the Law for Employment Promotion, etc., of the Disabled, enterprises employing five or more persons with disabilities are required to appoint a vocational life consultant who will offer advice and guidance to disabled workers on all aspects of vocational life. JEED conducts training courses for this qualification.
3 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, seminars based on corporate needs and characteristics are held.
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 supports including job coaches as well as periodical follow-up services.
6 Employment 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 disability employment advisors 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 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 good examples introduced in the information journal, "Hataraku Hiroba (Working People's Plaza) ". The site can be searched by type of business or type of disability.
"Reference Service for Successful Cases of Disability Employment" (in Japanese)
▲Central Information Center for Persons with Disabilities
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 Central Information Center for Persons with Disabilities at JEED headquarters or on the website at: http://www.kiki.jeed.or.jp/ (in Japanese)
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/ (in Japanese)