Pols pile on temporary worker bandwagon
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Pols pile on temporary worker bandwagon
After tuition pledges, parties see vote bank in nonregular laborers

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July 18, 2011
A new round of competition to please the working class has begun in the political arena as ruling and opposition parties prepare promises of better treatment for the country’s 5.77 million nonregular workers in the months ahead of the next year’s legislative and presidential elections.

The topic was brought up by Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik last week. In a policy coordination meeting on Friday, Kim singled out the importance of resolving the “long overdue problems of the nonregular workforce.” He urged ministries to pay attention to the issue, including widely different wages for the same jobs depending on what kind of contract the employee has.

Nonregular workers include temporary workers, short-term contract workers and day laborers. Since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, companies have been increasingly hiring nonregular workers, while the labor community, government and legislature have made attempts to protect them from wage discrimination, poor working conditions and low job security.

Triggered by Kim’s remarks, the ruling Grand National Party and the opposition Democratic Party are making the issue their next policy competition after the ongoing promises to cut college tuition.

The Grand National Party said it will come up with a road map by mid-August. Specific plans include establishing guidelines for companies to upgrade nonregular workers’ employment status, giving tax benefits to companies that offer regular contracts, and probably a punitive tax on companies that hire more nonregular workers. Providing welfare benefits, including state-run health insurance, to nonregular workers is also being considered.

Hong Joon-pyo, the new GNP chairman, said last week that a policy for nonregular workers will play a crucial role in redefining the ruling party’s image from representing the rich to fighting for the working class.

The Democrats promoted a goal of reducing nonregular workers from 50 percent of the nation’s workforce to 30 percent by 2015.

According to the DP plan announced earlier this month, the key to achieving the goal is urging state-run businesses and local governments to upgrade their nonregular workers’ employment status to that of regular workers.

“The public sector must set an example,” said DP spokesman Hong Young-pyo. “Then, the government can urge private companies to follow suit.”

Representative Joo Seung-yong, the DP’s deputy chief policy maker, also stressed reform in the public sector.

“Local governments headed by the Democrats should lead the reform,” Joo said, adding that they should hire more regular workers for public service projects and stop hiring temporary workers through private contractors.


By Ser Myo-ja, Baek Il-hyun [myoja@joongang.co.kr]


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