National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea
for detention in jail. As to these improvements, the Commission thought
that they were still not enough.
Accordingly, the Commission reviewed the existing laws and regulations
related to disciplinary detention and the status of the operation of
disciplinary detention system. It also gathered the opinions of the
personnel of the Ministry of National Defense and the military, civil
society organizations, and experts. It, then, issued recommendations to
the Ministry of National Defense on November 28, 2013.
S. Recommendation on the Human Rights of Senior Workers Who
Do Surveillance or Control Service
Our society experiences social and demographic changes including the
increasing portion of senior population. As a result, the senior group
has been becoming an important part of the labor force. Seniors are,
however, considered as supplemental labor, and accordingly are not
recognized as the subject of rights and duties at their workplace.
The NHRCK made a survey of the human rights conditions in senior
jobs, especially surveillance and control jobs whose working environment
is worse than others. As a result, the Commission found that more than
39% of the seniors doing surveillance or control jobs were under
all-inclusive wage labor contracts. Because of the contracts, it was
found that the seniors could not be given remuneration for additional
work or their severance pay were illegally included in the all-inclusive
wages.
In order to minimize the unreasonableness of the all-inclusive wage
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