standards and ensure basic quality of living for stateless persons (September 1st, 2011). It first recommended the Minister of Justice to realign laws and regulations to guarantee legitimate status and rights of stateless persons as set forth on the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and to come up with measures to ensure a minimum standard of living as well as stable life until the nationality issue is settled down. It also recommended the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade to issue travel certificates to allow them to depart and re-enter Korea in the case of a death of family members staying in another country or for other humanitarian reasons. It recommended the Minister of Health and Welfare to include stateless persons to those eligible for medical expense subsidies to ensure their right to healthy life. 3) Recommendation to Improve Employment Permit System The government has steadily raised the level of human rights protection of migrant workers by taking measures such as abolishing industrial training system, introducing the employment permit system, allowing more reasons to be accepted as a reason for change of employer, excluding suspension or closure of business in the number of change of employer, allowing one exception in the number of change of employer, and extending job searching and job transition period. Nevertheless, situations that were not caused by migrant workers and shouldn’t have been counted as a change of employer continued to be reflected in the number of change of employer. Fearing failure to maintain employment permit due to the number of changes in employer regulation, migrant workers were forced to endure human rights violation by working in conditions different than agreed, such as physical abuse, and withholding wage or severance pay. Based on its review, the Commission recommended the Minister of Employment and Labor to allow more reasons to be accepted as a reason for change of employer, consider developing procedures to build the foundation for re-employment and stable living conditions of skilled migrant workers, enhance supervision and management of employers hiring migrant workers, improve insurance for severance pay and wage for migrant Chapter 3. Investigations and Remedies: Civil Rights Violations 91