In April 2018 the legal percentage level of disabled workers to which Japanese companies must comply was raised from 2.0% to 2.2%, despite the fact that only 50% of these companies had actually complied with the previous lower requirement. Nonetheless the government insists on pursuing this cause, the goal of which is ‘an overall improvement in the recognition of disabled workers and their working conditions.’
In Japan all companies with more than 100 staff had to employ disabled workers up to a proportion of 2% of total headcount on a full time or part time basis and those who failed to do so had to pay a monthly tax of YEN 50,000 (€380) per missing disabled employee.
As a result of that legislation some companies committed to putting an appropriate employment policy in place.
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