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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED153010 AUTHOR: Compton, David M.; Vinton, Dennis A.
TITLE: Employment of Handicapped People in Leisure
Occupations.
NOTE: 32 p.
ABSTRACT: In response to the need for up-to-date
information on employment opportunities for handicapped
people in the leisure occupations, a national survey was
conducted to determine both existing levels of employment
and employer practices. The survey was sent to 500 agencies
and businesses representing four leisure occupational
subclusters: travel, tourism, and hospitality; leisure
entertainment products and enterprises; resource based
services; and community based recreation and park services.
Based on 155 responses, the findings include the following:
(1) 43% of the respondents hired the handicapped on a full
time basis; (2) agencies in the community-based recreation
subcluster hired the largest percentage of handicapped
individuals; (3) the majority of agencies employing the
handicapped on a full-time basis were agencies with large
numbers of employees; (4) while 70% of the respondents
hired employees on a part-time basis, only 17% hired the
handicapped; (5) while 66% of the respondents hired
employees on a seasonal basis, only 15% hired the
handicapped; (6) 75% of the respondents hired handicapped
individuals at the lowest three levels (unskilled, semi
skilled, and skilled), and (7) although 65% of the
respondents advocated the employment of handicapped
persons, there is a sizable gap between this position and
their actual employment practices. (Job families, hierarchy
of sample jobs, and resource references for each of the
four subclusters are appended.) (EM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Employer-Attitudes;
Employment-Level; Employment-Patterns; Employment-Problems;
Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; National-Surveys; Part-Time
Employment; Seasonal-Employment; State-of-the-Art-Reviews;
Tourism-; Underemployment-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employment-Opportunities; *Employment
Practices; *Physical-Disabilities; *Recreation-; *Service
Occupations
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