500,000 won per person to support visiting care workers and extracurricular teachers

The government will pay 500,000 won per person per person in the first half of next year to after-school teacher and visitor services employees who are experiencing a sharp drop in income due to the national novel coronavirus infection. (Crown 19).

In addition, a plan is being pushed to abolish the exclusive standard (condition that a special high school must provide labor to a company), which has been a factor that restricts the participation of workers in special job workers (high school special).

On the 14th, the Minister of Employment and Labor, the Minister of Employment and Labor, Lee Jae-gap, announced the ‘essential measures of protection and support to workers to respond to Corona 19’, including the above information in the Government Complex Sejong.

◇ Livelihood allowance for visiting caregivers and extracurricular teachers in the first semester of next year

Essential workers are workers who provide the face-to-face services necessary for the daily life of people even in the situation of ‘social distancing’ caused by the Corona 19 incident, and refer to medical care, medical care, solidarity workers, delivery men and parcel drivers and environmental sanitation centers.

By order of President Moon Jae-in, the government formed a pan-government working group (TF) to protect and support essential workers in October and prepared measures.

First, in the first half of next year, the government decided to pay 500,000 won per person for the support of 90,000 people, including visiting caregivers and extracurricular teachers in elementary, middle and high schools.

Visiting health care workers have a low level of treatment, such as an average monthly income of only 1 million to 1.4 million won, and the risk of infection increases due to the 19 crown incident, suffering twice as much. After-school teacher earnings were drastically reduced due to restrictions on school attendance and the suspension of classrooms after school.

Its livelihood support budget of 46 billion won was raised by donations to overcome the Corona 19 disaster by the Financial Industry Users Council, the National Union of the Financial Industry and the Federation of Banks.

Through the revision of the Workers ‘Compensation Insurance Act, a plan is also promoted to abolish the exclusive rules applied to workers’ compensation insurance. To this end, the government plans to draw up a plan to reform the exclusive standards through the workforce, management and expert TF early next year.

Special notices are often made under contracts with multiple companies, but you must meet unique criteria, such as earning more than a certain level of income from a company, to receive workers’ compensation insurance benefits.

In the event of abolishing the exclusive rule of special notices, the collection of premiums for occupational accident insurance and the insurance management system should also be improved. This topic is also discussed in the Labor, Management and Expert TF.

The government decided to support spending on personalized medical check-ups, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, for package delivery and delivery drivers and environmental sanitation centers. The revision of related laws will also be promoted so that medical check-ups by type of work are included in the type of medical check-ups according to related laws.

◇ Restrictions on the use of large capacity pay-per-use bags that are carried by environmental sanitation workers.

The government plans to go ahead with a plan to limit the use of large-capacity, 100-liter volume bags next year in order to ease the physical burden on environmental cleaners.

After limiting the use of pay-per-use large-capacity bags for businesses last year, the use of large-capacity bags for households next year will also be restricted after consulting with local governments.

In addition, for workplaces vulnerable to COVID-19 group infections, such as call centers and distribution centers, it has been decided to strengthen management, such as on-site inspections with related ministries.

Additionally, the Ministry of Labor plans to monitor work and occupational safety on whether vacation and rest hours are properly allocated for call centers and nursing facilities, and whether wages are not behind.

For solidarity workers in social welfare facilities, we will strengthen workforce support for shift work and promote measures to ease the requirements for the use of alternatives. To reduce the burden on childcare teachers, the placement of assistant and extended teachers is also being expanded.

Additionally, by establishing an insurance inquiry system for a surrogate driver, you have decided to reduce the cost burden by avoiding duplicate insurance underwritings.

For motorcycle drivers, in the first half of next year, a plan to introduce the delivery industry certification system will be reviewed and a plan will be promoted to lay the groundwork for the establishment of a mutual aid association by enacting of the Living Logistics Law.

In the future, the government plans to establish a response system by designating essential workers by disaster type so that essential worker protection and support measures can be quickly implemented in the event of a crisis such as the Corona 19 incident.

In addition, it was decided to promote the enactment of the ‘Law for the Protection and Support of Essential Business Workers’, which stipulates the concept of essential work and the role of government and local governments.

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