Kim Dae-hwan, Former Labor Minister of the Roh Moo-hyun Government “What the current government respects is a union, not a worker.”

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“The government (of Moon Jae-in) puts fairness in business and the global standard in relations between workers and management as a political justification, which is like changing the left and right shoes.”

On the 18th, at the ‘Labor Reform Plan Discussion Meeting Invited by Former Labor Minister Kim Dae-hwan’ held by the Korea Economic Research Institute at the FKI conference center in Yeouido, Seoul. It is arbitrary to do so, ”he said.

Former Minister Kim, who served as Labor Minister in the Roh Moo-hyun administration, was a labor expert who led social consultations on labor policy by serving as Chairman of the Labor and Administration Committee in the Park Geun administration. hye.

On this day, the discussion took place in the form of former Minister Kim answering questions from President Kwon Tae-shin and Han Kyung-yeon.

Former Minister Kim said: “In a word, it is regrettable” the labor policy that represents the regularization of non-regular workers and the 52-hour-a-week system. .

Furthermore, Kim pointed out that it is dangerous to revise union legislation without taking into account the specificity of relations between Korean workers and employers to comply with the ILO agreement based on the European system.

He said: “ILO Convention No. 87, Freedom of Association protects the right to organize, but unlike the industrial union system in Europe, many problems are expected because Korea is a company-specific union system.” It has nothing to do with the payment of wages, and it also goes against the intention of labor and managerial autonomy ”.

Former Minister Kim cited one of the key revisions to the union law, which allows employers to pay wages to their predecessors, saying: “A regulation that imposes excessive regulation on companies and arbitrarily applies global standards to unions to strengthen the powers “. ) Against the pressure on (the review) based on the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement, the government said: ‘Because there may be problems because the socio-economic environment is different from Europe, we will legislate after sufficient discussion.’ .

Former Minister Kim also said of the current union: “The current relations between workers and management are ‘a sloping playing field’ with the unions.”

“The union is no longer socially weak and, as its social influence as a political force grows, even the behavior of political corporatism is visible.”