A plan to regulate night work, which is cited as the cause of the continued deaths of Coupang logistics center and delivery workers, will be prepared by September next year.
The Ministry of Labor said it would reduce actual working hours to the average level of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries (1,700 hours per year) within its term, and decided to push for a bill banning the comprehensive wage system, which is considered the main culprit of long hours and free work, and mandating the measurement and recording of working hours.
Regarding public sector civil servants, fixed-term workers, dispatched workers, and service workers, a fact-finding survey will be conducted across all ministries and public institutions by March next year.
Based on this, we plan to create treatment improvement measures next year and reflect them in the management evaluation of public institutions.
Starting next year, May 1, which will be renamed from ‘Labor Day’ to ‘Labor Day’, is being promoted as a statutory holiday so that public servants can also take a day off.