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CALCULATION OF DISABLED EMPLOYEE NUMBERS
The Council of Labor Affairs recently issued an interpretation on how the number of disabled persons employed by an employer should be calculated for the purposes of compliance with the Act for Protection of Physically and Mentally Disabled Citizens, which requires that disabled persons make up at least 1% of the workforce of private entities that employ 100 or more persons in total.
The CLA stated that (1) each disabled employee receiving a monthly salary of at least the monthly minimum wage prescribed under the Labor Standards Act (LSA) should be counted as one employee, except that each severely disabled employee should be counted as two employees; and (2) in the case of disabled part-time em-ployees receiving a monthly salary of less than the LSA minimum wage but at least half the minimum wage, two employees should be counted as one employee, except that a severely disabled part-time employee should be counted as one employee.