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There was a request for President Moon Jae-in to sincerely enact the Severe Disaster Punishment Law. The National Federation of Democratic Trade Unions (Sindicatos Democrático) announced on the 18th that “the president’s decision can establish the position of the ruling party and the Democratic Party immediately.”
President Moon recently emphasized: “It is time to escape the misfortune of being among the top-ranking industrial accident fatalities among OECD countries.” At a cabinet meeting on the 17th, he expressed his regret, saying: “The number of deaths from industrial accidents is slowly decreasing, but the pace is not as fast as expected.” For the government, he said: “Where there is a problem, there is an answer. I hope that this time the government will have a strong will to drastically reduce deaths on the construction site.”
The Confederation of Trade Unions issued a statement the next day, saying: “As President Moon Jae-in said, why the Occupational Safety and Health Act was completely revised in 30 years, the number of industrial safety supervisors increased to almost 300, and the local governments together with the local government temporarily patrolled the field to strengthen supervision. Although I did, the unfortunate deaths from industrial accidents will not decrease. Financial aid has also increased dramatically, but why is it not paying off? “And he argued that” because the diagnosis and prescription of the problem were wrong. ” “This is the ‘Kim Yong-gyun Law’ (the complete revision of the Occupational Safety and Health Law and lower enforcement decree), where the self-admiring Kim Yong-gyun was omitted, and the recognition and prescription that accidents Serious and industrial accidents can be drastically reduced by hiring supervisors.
They said, “As President Moon Jae-in knows, recurring serious and industrial accidents are resolved by establishing and maintaining fundamental laws and systems. It is the promulgation of the ‘Law of corporate punishment for serious accidents’ initiated by 100,000 workers and citizens. It is only necessary to enact this law to protect the life and safety of the people and to reorganize the system to fulfill the purpose of the enactment. “I hope that a society that respects work begins by protecting the right of workers to work safely.” He urged the committee members to act accordingly to obtain the sincerity of the request. “
President Moon has met face-to-face with workplace accident victims and their families and provided them with comfort on several occasions. However, at the time of the presidential election, it was unclear whether or not the Serious Accident Act was enacted in line with basic promises in the labor sector. In August 2017, the first year of his inauguration, when the victims of the disinfectant humidifiers ordered ‘Introduction of the Law of Corporate Punishment for Severe Accidents’, President Moon responded: “The priority is to establish a definite cause and do an investigation and a medical judgment “. In February 2019, the mother of the late Kim Yong-gyun, who died while working as a subcontractor at the Taean Thermal Power Plant, met with President Moon and appealed to President Moon: “I hope that Yong-gyun, who is find yourself at the crossroads of life and death by enacting a law on corporate punishment for severe disasters, prevent your colleagues from being murdered. ” did. President Moon responded by saying, “Please take care of the matters agreed with the countermeasures committee (Kim Yong-gyun’s late citizen countermeasures committee) so that the party can be properly implemented.” In November 2020, President Moon directly revealed that he mourned the death of an industrial accident, but the Blue House also drew a line that “is not related to the bill that is being discussed in the National Assembly.”
Furthermore, in the case of the Democratic Party, Lee Nak-yeon, the representative of the negotiating organization, promised to enact a law on corporate punishment for severe disasters in September this year, but does not depend on the party. While a plan has been discussed to amend the Occupational Health and Safety Act instead of the Law on Corporate Punishment for Severe Accidents, the possibility of reviewing the revised bills of the Law on Corporate Punishment for Severe Accidents and the Industrial Safety Law is proposed in two ways. Furthermore, a voice within the Democratic Party was publicly announced that the enactment of the Serious Accident Punishment Law should not be delayed any further. At the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the 18th, 42 members of the Democratic Party of National Solidarity for Economic Democratization and Peaceful Unification (Minpyeongryeon) and 52 members of the ‘Better Future’ (The Mirae) through a statement and a Press conference. Laws were urged. Among them, Minpyeong-ryeon is in a position to promote the Law on the Punishment of Enterprises in Serious Accidents.
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