[사회]The company is ‘Namola’ and the government is ‘behind’ … the shadow of 30 years in the courier industry

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This is a series of reports on the distorted work environment that courier workers face.

In the last year alone, the package delivery industry grew rapidly, reaching a scale of 6 trillion won. What made the dark shadow behind the beautiful?

They can be accomplices not only the messengers who seek to profit by the protection of workers, but also the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Ministry of Lands, Infrastructure and Transport, which have left the law without proper supervision.

This is Hong Min-ki.

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In 2016, when two CJ Logistics courier drivers died from overwork, the problem of murderous labor came to the fore.

After 4 in 2017 and 3 in 2018, 12 postal carriers died last year.

■ The courier company is “I don’t know”

Whenever there was a problem, the courier companies said that the courier worker was not an employee, but an individual business operator, for which the headquarters could not be held liable.

Night work, irregular working hours, dubious employment structures, none of which have changed yet.

[박창환 / 택배 기사 : 원청의 택배 일을 하고 있고, 대리점 소속 기사이긴 한데 개인사업자 신분이다 보니까…. 일은 일대로 하는데, 소속에 대한 혜택은 못 누리는 상황이지 않나….]

■ The government is ‘backward’

At the time of 2017, the Ministry of Lands, Infrastructure and Transport drew up a plan to separate the sorting and delivery of packages and expand industrial accident insurance.

The solution requested by the couriers came out three years ago, but has not been implemented.

This is because negotiations between the union, the company and the government finally broke down in March last year, and then the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport practically gave up.

[국토교통부 관계자 : (이런 내용은 TF에서 논의가 안 됐나요?) 그 내용은 확인이 안 되네요. (행정적으로 시도하신 건 있었는지….) 행정적으로 시도할 게 뭐가 있어요?]

The Ministry of Employment and Labor, which has left the Labor Accident Insurance Law for specially employed workers, has a problem.

It is noted that if the courier admitted that he was actually a headquarters employee and included it in the subordinate status, most of the items would have been work-related accidents.

Wasn’t it passive because the Ministry of Employment was noticing the backlash from the industry that it had to pay the full premium?

[고용노동부 관계자 : 앞으로 관련해서는 헌법 소원도 진행 중이기 때문에 그 결과에 따라서 구체적인 답변을 드릴 수 있을 것 같아요.]

For this reason, the government is also criticized for being an accomplice in the ‘delivery disaster’.

[한인임 / 노동환경건강연구소 사무처장 : 결국은 그냥 시장에 놔둔 상태가 돼서 계속 돌아가시고 있는 거라고 봐요. 관련 부처가, 행정 감독기관이 아무것도 안 하고 있다는 게 심각한 문제죠.]

■ The ‘Courier Delivery Act’ is required, containing the legal status of courier workers.

To correct the problem, the so-called ‘Law of Delivery by Courier’ is needed, which contains the scope of labor and welfare details, and above all, there are voices that the courier worker must clarify the legal situation of the employee of the company.

[양이원영 / 더불어민주당 국회의원 : 분류작업은 법안보다는 노사 간의 협상이 돼야 하는 건데 현재는 사측이 노동자들을 자기 노동자라고 인정을 안 해요. 택배 기사들은 원청업체인 택배사에 의해서 모든 게 좌지우지되거든요. 수수료부터 시작해서….]

Courier workers who wear uniforms with company logos and drive trucks are not recognized as employees.

Even now, if the law is not revised, accusations against the government and industry for neglecting the death of workers will inevitably increase.

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