Annual Report 2013
labor contract, the Commission issued recommendations to the Minister
of Employment and Labor. They include: clarification of included items
for all-inclusive wages in the labor contracts; and making a standard
labor contract, which stipulates remuneration for additional work, and
making it available for use.
The Commission's recommendations issued on November 28, 2013,
also include: in order to secure resting hours of seniors, making sure
that "the requirements for approval of excluding working hours, resting
and holidays," as prescribed in Article 63 of the Labor Standards Act,
include stipulations on the provision of sleeping and resting facilities
and guaranteeing use of welfare facilities in the general terms and
conditions
of
the
labor
contracts;
prohibition
of
an
en
masse
applications of the afore-mentioned exclusion by large labor service
firms, and making arrangements, instead, for each workplace to make
such applications directly to the Office of Employment and Labor which
has regional jurisdiction.
T. Recommendation on the Human Rights Conditions of Migrant
Workers in the Agricultural and Livestock Industries
The provisions regarding working hours, resting, leaves, etc. of the
Labor Standards Act do not apply to the migrant workers in the
agricultural and livestock industries. As such, their long-time working
and low wages have been a controversial issue of the press, the
National Assembly, and human rights organizations. The NHRCK, in
response, decided to have an understanding of the general human rights
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