workers are protected. It was also recommended that the Minister ensure the practical
supervision of the caregivers' working conditions by checking, for example, if
employment contracts comply with the Labor Standard Act. In addition, the Commission
recommended that the Minister of Employment and Labor conduct thorough labor
inspections of long-term care facilities in order to guarantee that caregivers have a certain
level of working conditions. The NHRCK also recommended that the heads of local
government groups ensure practical management and supervision of the services, and that
the Chairperson of National Health Insurance Corporation establish measures to guarantee
caregivers industrial safety and to deal with the violence, abusive words and sexual
harassment inflicted by service recipients (June 14, 2012).
In response, the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the National Health Insurance
Corporation endorsed all of the NHRCK's recommendations, while the Ministry of Health
and Welfare expressed their intention to accept the recommendations regarding the
improvement of the standard employment contract, the incorporation of labor-related
clauses into service evaluation criteria, and the solutions to sexual harassment. As for
local government groups, 60.7% of organizations responded, and 98% of the
organizations that replied expressed their intent to accept the recommendations.
G. Integrated Policy Recommendation to Build a Human Rights-Friendly Culture in Schools
Schools are undergoing the serious crisis of suicides being caused by violence and
bullying among students, excessive corporal punishment and other problems. The
NHRCK formed the Research Group for the Establishment of Pro-human Rights School
Culture, a group of 11 experts including education professionals, assigned to come up
with fundamental alternatives to raising the human rights of students. The research group
concluded that building a human rights-friendly culture in schools should involve the
institutionalization of the education about human rights, the protection of student human
rights, respect for the right of teachers, the development of human rights-friendly student
guiding principles without corporal punishment, and the creation of measures for
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