(1) Reasons for Proposal

This Partial Amendment aims to prepare a basis to handle sensitive information that is required to identify persons with severe disabilities, and align applicable provisions with the law, which is revised to define in-house lecturer qualification requirements if the business owner provides education to improve the awareness of persons with disabilities in the workplace.

In addition, it aims to prepare a basis to provide helpers to public officials with disabilities, align applicable provisions as charges are now applied to public officials, and revise down the interest rate on overdue charges for employing persons with disabilities.

(2) Major Provisions

A. Prepare a basis to use and handle sensitive information that is required to identify persons with severe disabilities

1) Prepare a basis to use review information under the Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities in identifying persons with severe disabilities (Article 4 (2) 3). 

2) Allow the Minister of Employment and Labor to outsource the work of identifying persons with severe disabilities to the Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled (Article 82 (2) 41 newly inserted).

3) Add Article 25 (Furnishing of Data to Business Owners) of the Act on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities to Article 82-2 (Handling of Sensitive Information and Personally Identifiable Information) of the Enforcement Decree and Article 4 (1) (Identification of Persons with Severe Disabilities) (Articles 82-2, subparagraphs 15 and 26).

B. Align applicable provisions for education to improve the awareness of persons with disabilities

1) Define the scope of applicability for in-house lecturer qualification requirements (Article 5-2 (5)).

2) Prepare a requirement to consider education by the qualified lecturer (Article 5-2 (6)).

3) Allow the Minister of Employment and Labor to define other matters required for education to improve the awareness of persons with disabilities (Article 5-2 (8)).

C. Prepare a basis to provide helpers to public officials with disabilities (Article 20-2 (1))

D. Create a requirement to report charges for public officials in the central or local government (Article 35-2 newly inserted).

E. Revise down the interest rate on overdue charges for employing persons with disabilities (Article 40 (1)).

F. Prepare a basis to request electronic networks or data for public official pension holders (Article 81-2, subparagraph 5 newly inserted).