Article: FED: More disabled Australians finding work, but less hours


AAP General News (Australia)
09-30-1999
FED: More disabled Australians finding work, but less hours

CANBERRA, Sept 30 AAP - More disabled Australians are finding work under federal
government-funded job assistance programs but most are getting less hours, a new report to be
released today shows.

An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report into open employment services
for those with disabilities in 1997-98 found over 31,000 disabled Australians found and kept
jobs on the open employment market over the study period.

That figure was 20 per cent more than in 1996-97 and followed a similar increase the year
before.

Open employment services, funded by the federal ...

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