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Delivery service workers are listening to attendees at a delivery service agreement ceremony for a social dialogue forum to prepare a platform work alternative that was held in Masil, a community house in Jung-gu, Seoul. , October 6. By Park Jong-sik, Staff Reporter [email protected]

In the platform of worker protection measures announced by the government on the 21st, it was revealed that it was decided to create a separate special law instead of expanding the concept of workers in the existing labor legislation. In summary, on the 20th, three members of the Labor Affairs Committee, Kim Jae-ha, chairman of the KCTU emergency response committee, Kim Dong-myeong, chairman of the Korean Federation of Trade Unions, and Cho Don-moon, emeritus professor of the Catholic University, they were on the 18th to decide the measures to protect the workers of the platforms. He refused to present a deliberation on the agenda of the Working Committee. The intention is to oppose the ‘Worker Protection Legislation Platform’, which the government decided to create and promote a special law. The 18th Working Committee consists of 30 members, including Chairman Moon Jae-in, Vice Chairman Kim Yong-gi, and 15 ex officio members and 13 commissioners. The agenda will be decided on the 21st when the government measures are announced by written deliberation on the 17th and 18th. The labor community argues that the enactment of a separate special law, rather than a method to expand the concept of workers under the Law of Labor, as the revision of Article 2 of the Trade Union Law, is likely to lead platform workers to ‘labor rights blind spots’ like special type workers (specially employed). do. In a statement issued on the 18th, the KCTU said: “It is expected that (the enactment of a special law) will exclude platform workers from the protection of labor law and continue to selectively protect labor rights at the employee level especially (by occupation) “. It will lead to incentives to use the platform to evade the responsibility of users. “It is estimated that there are at least 550,000 people in Korea (Korea Labor Information Service in 2018), and it is noted that protection measures for workers in platforms, which are increasing rapidly due to Corona 19, are being pushed forward without sufficient input from the parties. In a statement released by the Korean Federation of Trade Unions on the same day, “The Ministry of Employment and Labor proposed the implementation of the legislation as an agenda for the written deliberation of the Employment Committee, as it was a countermeasure according to the results of the discussion on the Employment Committee ‘Platform of work and employment (TF)’ that ended in August. No mention of the promotion of special laws related to countermeasures for platform workers “. Consequently, the KCTU requested the withdrawal of the agenda on the 18th and met with Vice President Kim, but the Jobs Committee said: “The majority of the decision quorum has been filled”, and said that it will handle the agenda as scheduled. . However, by pushing back the legislation promotion schedule in January next year, the company has taken a step back to move flexibly through roadside consultations in the first quarter of next year. Emeritus Professor Don-Moon Jo said: “President Jae-in Moon agreed to improve legislation for the protection of specially employed workers in an open questionnaire from academic and social organizations when he was a candidate (April 2017). As seen in the recent revision of the union law, the concept of workers under the union law was broadened. We are devising measures to select and protect workers according to their type of work rather than direction (like a special law). “As production methods and types of employment diversify, the number of people who are not subject to current labor laws will continue to increase, but it is not correct to make a special law every time. -Pinch. By Sun Dam-eun, Staff Reporter [email protected]