Health agency apologizes for insensitive post listing benefits of hiring the disabled

A government health agency apologized yesterday for an insensitive post listing offensive reasons why employers should hire people with disabilities.

ThaiHealth issued a statement of apology on Facebook for the post, stating that it was meant to list the advantages of hiring the elderly, not the disabled, and that it had caused the impression that it “devalued” people with disabilities.

The infographic, which was posted on Saturday, was titled “Advantages of hiring the disabled” and listed reasons such as “they won’t take leave often”, “they work slow but get the job done”, and “it’s a competitive job that makes money”. It also said that they won’t ever ask for special job benefits or privileges and that their turnover rate is low.

Many commenters blasted the ad as tone-deaf and completely backward in its discriminatory view of the…