National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea
was a serious concern.
The Commission concluded that the revision of the Road Act is
desirable before the revision of the Act on Discrimination Prohibition or
the Act on the Promotion of Access to Facilities and Information. The
Commission, then, recommended the Minister of Land, Infrastructure
and Transport that Article 42 of the Road Act should be revised so that
road occupation charge can be exempted on the ground that ramps
connecting small shopping centers and pedestrian road have a character
of public interest rather than a means of private interest earning for
building owners.
N. Recommendation on the Exclusion of Assistant for Civil Servants
with Serious Disabilities
In 2011, the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of
Disabled Persons Act was revised, and as a result, the provision of
assistants for the severely handicapped at workplace was established.
However, this does not applied to civil servants. The Commission
thought that this support system is to promote the human rights of the
disabled by stabilizing employment of the severely handicapped and
providing them with necessary support.
The Commission,
hence,
reviewed the related government policies and programs.
As the result of the review, the Commission found that the Ministry
of Employment and Labor did not provide assistants for those civil
servants with serious disabilities. The Ministry's rationale was that
"civil servants are not workers for the purpose of the Labor Standards
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