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Disabled learn about government jobs at Pattaya seminar
Deaf individuals reading sign
language while attending the seminar for the development of disabled under
the agenda “Tradition of Disabled working in Public agencies” at Ray Resort
Pattaya.
Warunya Thongrod
About 50 disabled Pattaya residents took advantage of training from
representatives of the National Office for Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities and Redemptorist School for People with Disabilities on how to
secure public-sector jobs.
NEP Director Napha Settakorn presided over the “Tradition of the Disabled
Working Within Public Agencies” seminar at Ray Resort Aug. 29-31.
The workshop was aimed at educating the disabled on provisions of the 2007
Persons with Disabilities’ Quality of Life Promotion and Development Act,
which was updated in 2011 to require at least 1 percent of employees
private-sector companies be disabled or, if not, that employers pay into a
job-training fund.
The first day of the conference covered “Life and Work of Thai Government
Officers” with Napha doing the lecturing. “Tradition of Disabled Working
Within Public Agencies,” presented by Sibmuenchai Phottisin, a Chonburi
labor scholar, followed. Wuthipol Chaorenpol, chief of the Pattaya Permanent
Secretary’s Office, and Capt. Suthinant Hattathuang, director of Laem
Chabang Port made speeches the second day.
Napha said the seminar was for the disabled to learn and adopt the practices
within public agencies.
She said the updated law has been successful in bringing more disabled into
the workplace, with more than 17,000 employed last year. This year officials
hope to raise that total to 21,000, she said.
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