Japan ministries may have inflated number of disabled employees –Reports
Several ministries in Japan may have been inflating for decades the number of physically challenged people they employ in order to meet quotas, media said on Friday, even as the government imposes levies on private companies that fail to meet theirs.
Revelations of any falsification by ministries could undermine public trust in Japan, where manufacturers are already reeling from a string of data-tampering scandals, such as one involving the falsification of product specifications at Kobe Steel.
Since 1976, the public and private sectors have been told to employ a certain percentage of the physically challenged/disabled, as part of efforts to provide employment and stamp out discrimination.
