[공공기관24시]Why did Han Su-won ‘warn’ employees?

There are 340 public institutions under the government. 41,594 people (as of the end of 2019) work here. Among them, there are also large public corporations like KEPCO, where about 20,000 people work, and some other public institutions around 100 people like the Cinema Promotion Committee. However, there is one thing in common that provides public services closely related to our lives. Sometimes it is called “God’s Work”, but it is a jealous object. Through this corner, E-Daily analyzes what is happening here and what they are doing.

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[이데일리 김형욱 기자] Kim Seong-tae (pseudonym), who works to issue a pass at the main gate of Power Station A operated by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power. He is a 20-hour workweek worker. Kim has been working here for 4 years since April 2016. Although he is a part-time worker, he has a good reputation working sincerely.

Suwon Han’s Audit Office received a report on Kim in February. He said he was working at the mother’s hospital under someone else’s name.

If true, of course it is subject to discipline. The Public Service Law (Public Service Law) restricts employees of public institutions like Hansuwon from doing other things for profit. According to Han Soo-won’s own guidelines, it was possible from a minimal reprimand to dismissal.

The findings were true. Kim worked part-time at a nearby hospital twice a week on holidays for a year, from March to February last year. It wasn’t just someone else’s camouflage, but Kim admitted that the job itself was.

The problem was Mr. Kim’s plight. Kim is an employee at Hansuwon, who has an average annual salary of 9,650,000 won (based on full-time in 2019), but because he works 20 hours part-time per week, it was difficult to earn a living from his salary.

Excluding taxes and four main insurances, Kim’s money in his hand was an average of 1,109,200 won per month (as of 2019). This is just above the minimum cost of living for a single household in 2019 (KRW 105.4316). When Kim added 650,000 times a month to the hospital receipt day and received 50,067.67 won (12-month average), the minimum cost of living for 2 households was less than 1.74,393.7 won.

During the audit process, Kim explained, “I had no choice but to work as a high school worker, and I was looking for a part-time job on the hospital weekend so as not to interfere with the company’s work.”

Suwon Han’s audit office was also in trouble. It was an unusual situation. Suwon Han’s audit office finally ended on the 17th of this month, with the general manager in charge of the warning against Kim. This is thanks to Han Soo-won’s Law Department, who interpreted the current law as fully as possible and concluded that Mr. Kim’s work was an exceptionally acceptable range of for-profit work.

In principle, public transportation law prohibits the employment of public officials and employees for commercial purposes. However, there is a provision in Article 25 of the provisions of the National Public Service Law, which is the basis of the Decree of Execution of the Public Transport Law, that ‘part-time public officials can obtain a permit to work within the limits of their basic business if necessary for basic life. ‘ Based on this, the Office of Legal Affairs judged Kim’s position to be within the legal framework, and Hansuwon’s audit office warned only that Kim had not informed the company in advance.

Although he was warned that he had not informed in advance, it was impossible for Mr. Kim to apply for a job in advance. There have been no cases in which Hansuwon has ever requested a business purpose. A total of 76 cases of Han Su-won employees have served in the past three years, all of which are non-profit and pre-approved. It was like attending an atomic power society, association, foundation, committee, or university conference.

In most cases, for-profit work is strictly prohibited not only by public institutions but also by private companies. It is often due to disruption of the company’s business, leading to corruption. In 2018, the Korea Airports Corporation was disciplined because it revealed that a team-level executive was running a business related to the job he was in charge of.

However, as revealed in Mr. Kim’s case, there are more and more cases in which the unconditional prohibition of unemployment is not a prohibition due to the diversification of methods and types of employment. According to the recent Shinhan Bank report on the financial lives of ordinary people, the percentage of “workers” working side by side among workers increased from 8.1% in 2018 to 10.2% last year. 65.7% of the reasons for the fight were life problems.

Han Su-won is also trying to prepare a solution to this problem. After being warned, Kim was released from the hospital.

An official from the Han Su-won Audit Office said: “Given the diversity of employment conditions and ways of working, and full-time employees within the company working together, it is necessary to re-establish standards for the restriction of the restriction of employees and employees. “

The result of a questionnaire survey of Shinhan Bank “student work” in the Ordinary People’s Financial Report published on 27. Provided by Shinhan Bank