that actions should be taken to get a right picture about current conditions of those workers. 56. The Government stresses the leading role of the public sector in addressing the issue of non-regular workforce, particularly referring to the ‘Comprehensive Measures to Reduce Non-regular Workers in Public Sector’ which has been in place since 2006 and requires that fixed-term workers who have worked for a permanent and consistent job for 2 years or longer should be transferred to indefinite-term employment. Actually, the number of workers in indefinite-term employment is on the rise in the public sector, largely because about 22,000 fixed-term workers were transferred to indefinite-term jobs in 2012 and about 65,000 fixed-term workers were transferred to indefinite-term employment during 2013~2015. However, the workers in indefinite-term employment, although their employment is secured in formality, are largely concentrated in low-skilled jobs in some particular occupations or sectors and are clearly different from the regular workers in the ordinary sense, in terms of wage level, promotion opportunity, skills development and career building. Nevertheless, these indefinite-term workers remain outside the coverage of the discrimination remedy system which is stipulated in the Act on the Protection of Fixed-Term and Part-Time Workers, just because they are classified as regular workforce. 57. Although the number of the economically dependent workers (EDW) who need to be protected at a similar level as ordinary workers continues to grow and the number of the occupations for which the EDW are used also keeps growing, the legislation to protect EDW has not been introduced yet, leaving these workers outside social protection. On 17 September 2007, the NHRCK expressed, to the National Assembly and the Government, its opinion that the legislation should be enacted and revised at an early time in order to protect the EDW by securing minimum labour standards for these workers, guaranteeing them three basic labour rights and applying four social insurances to them. In addition, on 27 November 2014, the NHRCK recommended that the coverage of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (IACI) should be made more substantial for the EDW of the six occupations which are already governed by the IACI Act; and that the coverage of the IACI should be expanded to cover all of the EDW. In 2008, a special provision on EDW (Article 125) was inserted to the IACI Act, entitling the EDW in the nine occupations (four occupations in July 2008; two additional occupations in May 2012; and three additional occupations in July 2017) where those workers exclusively belong to their current workplaces to the protection of the IACI. However, ten years have passed since this legal revision, with no additional legislative action being taken to promote protection of the EDW. Questions suggested 58. Please provide detailed statistical data (including acceptance rate) on the discrimination remedy schemes of the Government (Labour Relations Commission, etc.), and give a detailed explanation on the Government’s position towards the argument that the procedure for the remedy of the right should be upgraded so that workers in indefinite-term employment may apply for the correction of the discrimination against themselves. 59. Little consideration has been made on the issue of the protection of the EDW over the last years, and it appears that the Government has not made sufficient policy efforts to protect those workers and promote their job security, as indicated in the fact that the NHRCK’s recommendation on the IACI coverage for these workers has not been accepted. Please give an explanation on the Government’s plan, including planned legislation, to protect the EDW. 14 / 25