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People with disabilities and jobs during a pandemic


People with disabilities and jobs during a pandemic
April 30, 2021
This article is in conjunction with the annual Workers’ Day celebration on May 1.
KUALA LUMPUR – As the nation prepares to celebrate Workers’ Day on Saturday, albeit on a limited scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a stark truth has emerged about the employment of people with disabilities (PwD).
Sadly, the pandemic has made it all the more difficult for PwD to remain gainfully employed, not to mention the usual impediments of constraints of facilities in the workplace and acceptance by the public, especially employers.
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One reason for this, according to the analysts interviewed, is that the pandemic has not spared ordinary people either. COVID-19 has also cast them into the world of unemployment and forced them to look for new jobs to keep their heads above water. ....

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