multi-dimensional discrimination can live. To realize this goal, the plan calls for more
aggressive measures and investment of resources to improve the environment for people
with developmental and mental disorders, as well as disabled women and children who
are facing comparatively more multi-dimensional discrimination than those with other
types of disabilities. These detailed policy alternatives are expected to assure human
rights for all people with disabilities regardless of the type of disability, gender and age.
M. Policy Recommendation and Opinion Regarding Aggressive Lockouts
The NHRCK observed that labor-management relations are under mounting tension
concerning lockouts because the greater percentage of companies initiated lockouts for a
given number of industrial actions, and many lockouts were involved in litigation. The
Commission concluded that the institutional system and practices needed to be improved in
consideration of the current legal system and the spirit of the three basic labor rights. As
such, the NHRCK recommended that the Minister of Employment and Labor strengthen
administrative guidance (including training) and its labor inspection efforts of business
owners in accordance with relevant previous rulings. The purpose of the recommendation
is to ensure that lockouts are not abused as a tool to obstruct the normal activities of trade
unions or to deny trade union members access to company premises. Examples of the
abusive use of lockouts include those that are initiated preemptively before a trade union
begins an industrial action, those that are disproportionate given the degree and method of
the trade union's industrial actions, and those that are used to pressure union members to
withdraw their union membership. Moreover, the Commission expressed an opinion to the
Chairperson of the National Assembly that the recommendations should be incorporated
into the future amendments of the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act and
other relevant rules and laws (November 22, 2012).
N. Policy Recommendation and Opinion Regarding the Intervention of Private Security
Company in Labor Relations
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