The Commission concluded that if private security is employed to deal with an
industrial action and this employment results in violence by unlawfully collecting
evidence on the activities of a labor union, breaking up a protest of the labor union
members or evict them from the company promises beyond their authorized safeguarding
work, this can not only threaten the life and integrity of workers but also practically
deteriorate the three basic labor rights. As such, the NHRCK reviewed the problems of
employing private security companies in industrial actions and ways to correct such
practices. Consequently, the Commission submitted recommendations and opinions to the
Minister of Employment and Labor and the Chairperson of the National Assembly to
restrict safeguard agencies from intervening in labor relations in an aggressive and
physical manner. The recommendations and opinions called for the Minister of
Employment and Labor to ensure that the work scope of security agencies in labor
relations is limited to those activities which are necessary for the protection of the
physical facilities. To do so, the Commission requested that the Minister come up with
measures to strengthen supervisory and managerial efforts so that when the security
agencies are engaged in evidence collection, forceful dispersion and eviction of union
members, and other activities that go outside the bounds of their tasks, the facility owner
(client) and the actual doers bear ensuing legal responsibility (November 22, 2012). The
opinion was presented to the Chairperson of the National Assembly that the above
recommendations should be incorporated into future amendments of the Security Services
Industry Act and other relevant rules and laws.
O. Recommendations Regarding the Guidelines to Address Discrimination of Insurance
Companies against the Disabled, and Relevant Medical and Statistical Research
The NHRCK recommended amending the Insurance Business Act and improving the
underwriting guidelines applicable to the underwriting of insurance for the disabled in
order to address the discriminatory practices of insurers against the people with
disabilities (August 22, 2005). The Insurance Business Act, amended on July 23, 2010,
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