Outcomes and Challenges of the Rights-Based Customized Public Job Program for Persons with Severe Disabilities: Focusing on the Perspective of Gyeonggi-do Province’s Stakeholders

The Rights-Based Public Job Program focuses on securing the labor rights of people with severe or profound disabilities, who were excluded from the capitalist labor market, and through this, promotes the transition to a rights-based paradigm based on rights rather than productivity-based labor. The study aimed to understand the social value of rights-based public jobs, which are differentiated from existing jobs, by exploring their implications, outcomes, limitations, and recommendations for improvement. For this, 19 stakeholders were interviewed. As a result of this study, it can be seen that rights-based public jobs have implications as labor that realizes the value of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities through the labor of the Severely Disabled and reproduces social values. However, in the process of operating the project, there were limitations such as value conflicts with other employment support policies, unstable employment due to the type of annual consignment business, and the burden of consignment agencies. Accordingly, legal institutionalization was proposed to expand the sustainability of the project. And it is necessary to clarify the criteria for selecting participants to achieve organic symbiosis with other employment support services for the disabled.