Organizations Push for Employment of Disabled Persons in Provinces
Local and international organizations on Tuesday marked International Day of Persons With Disabilities by calling on the government to extend its efforts to employ more disabled people beyond Phnom Penh’s environs. A sub-decree attached to the government’s Disability Law, enacted in July 2009, states that the staff of all government agencies must include a quota of at least 2 percent disabled persons—a goal to be reached within five years. Speaking to a crowd of more than 250 disabled people outside Phnom Penh’s Chenla Theater on Tuesday, Ngin Saorath, executive director of the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization, said that the quota was well on its way to being met in Phnom Penh, but that provincial and district government agencies were lagging behind. … Mr. Saorath told reporters later that 1.85 percent of all government employees in Phnom Penh have a disability, but that “very few” disabled people work in provincial governments. … In a letter dated December 2, Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated the government quotas on disabled workers, and urged the private sector, which the sub-decree states should have 1 percent disabled staff, to also move toward the goal before the July deadline. …
Matt Blomberg and Ben Sokhean
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