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Yesterday the State Council voted on the amendments to the Employment Insurance Law and the Law on the Collection of Premiums for Workers’ Compensation Insurance, which mandatorily apply employment insurance to employees in special employment (special secondary school ). Currently, special high school workers are classified as private companies and are not covered by employment insurance even though they are close to worker status such as providing labor for specific employers. The main content of this amendment is that employment insurance applies to workers in special high schools, but the specific occupations are determined by Presidential Decree. The insurance premiums are borne jointly by the employee and the business owner. If the revised bill passes the National Assembly, a large number of special high school workers, such as insurance agents covered by industrial accident insurance, courier drivers, credit card recruiters, proxy drivers, salespeople are expected to Door-to-door, express service technicians, etc., will be included in the employment insurance coverage, following the artist later this year.
The government and ruling party are pushing for the law to be revised with the aim of solving the employment insurance blind spot, but the parts of the special report are concerned about various side effects and are opposed. The Korea Economic Research Institute commissioned Mono Research, a survey agency, and surveyed 234 special high school workers in four occupations, including insurance planners, appliance installers, parcel drivers and golf course caddy, and found that 62.8% of them opposed the collective application of employment insurance. Appear. 68.4% of those surveyed said that work insurance could be threatened if employers pay insurance premiums due to mandatory employment insurance. The fact that the income is exposed was also cited as a reason for opposition. In particular, more than 4 in 10 were concerned that the earnings the employer had to report to the Labor Welfare Corporation to calculate the employment insurance premium could be applied to other social insurance, leading to increased costs.
No matter how good the intention, if it does not fit reality, it can have counterproductive effects, such as harm to the beneficiaries of the policy. A typical example is that low-wage workers lost their jobs due to a large increase in the minimum wage for the second year in a row under the Moon Jae-in administration. The same mistakes can be repeated if the enforcement of the employment insurance obligation for special high school workers is too hasty. As a result of the Council of State resolution, the ruling and opposition parties must fully capture the voices of the field and tweak the bill in a way that minimizes side effects while maintaining the purpose of the policy.
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