PETALING JAYA: Several groups advocating for the disabled community have slammed human resources minister V Sivakumar for denying the need for a specific law to deal with workplace discrimination faced by the community.
In a statement, they said the minister’s statement reflects a lack of understanding and acknowledgement of the systemic barriers faced by persons with diverse disabilities in job search, recruitment, and employment.“The minister missed the opportunity to address the real issue, that the absence of reported cases of workplace discrimination against persons with diverse disabilities is actually indicative of the fact that most of us are not getting employed in the first place,” they said.
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The activists said the poverty of Malaysian data obscures the true extent of issues faced by OKUs in the job search, recruitment, employment, and job retention process.“Since Merdeka, mechanisms for reporting discrimination cannot be accessed by persons with disabilities. This fact can no longer be ignored in 21st century Malaysia,” they said.
The groups also lamented the government’s failure to achieve its targeted 1% quota for hiring OKUs for the public sector, with the exception of the women, family and community development ministry. In 2021, only 0.35% of employees in the civil service were persons with disabilities.
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