Mexico airport hires workers with disabilities
July 20th, 2009‘Help for the handicapped can be a way of helping everyone’
From the Economist:
Mexico City’s main international airport has hired some 60 bilingual workers in wheelchairs to greet visitors. “They’re professional, attentive, always in a good mood, and never miss work,” says Héctor Velázquez, the airport’s director.
The example of the airport is rare among employers in Mexico, where the employment rate for people with disabilities is less than half that of the rest of society. In the public sector just 0.4% of workers have disabilities, according to the National Council for People with Disabilities.
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