Over Half of Companies in Toyama Prefecture Employ No People with Disabilities

By Barrier Free Japan, extract from the Fuji News Network

November 7 2024

TOYAMA – Companies in Japan of a certain size are required by law to employ people with disabilities, according to the ‘Act on Promotion of Employment of People with Disabilities’.

According to the Toyama Labor Bureau, over half of the companies that meet that certain size have not employed a single person, so-called zero-employment companies.

The “legal employment rate” was raised by 0.2 points in April 2024 and is set to rise further to 2.7 percent in July 2026.

Companies with 40 or more employees in Japan are required by law to employ at least one person with a disability.

In the prefecture, the actual employment rate of private companies was 2.32% as of June last year (legal 2.3%), a record high, and the percentage of companies that have achieved the legal employment rate is 55.6%, higher than the national average.