Ⅱ Recommendation for NAPs
2) UNGPs require the government to effectively enforce laws on business enterprises’
human rights protection, identify and narrow the gap between reality and the
system and ensure that enactment of new laws or revision of existing laws would
not encroach upon human rights. They also require the government to provide
guidelines on corporate responsibility to respect human rights and business
enterprises to properly communicate on human rights matters externally.
3) The international community has been institutionalizing the corporate responsibility
to respect human rights by revising relevant laws. Since 2009, Denmark, China
and South Africa have been requiring business enterprises to disclose
non-financial information such as environmental and social factors, and France
has also adopted the same requirement in 2011. In particular, the European Union
passed legislation in 2014, targeting business enterprises with more than 500
employees, requiring them mandatory disclosure of non-financial information such
as human rights.
4) Although various laws in Korea, such as the Labor Standard Act, the Minimum
Wages Act, the Act on the Equal Employment for Both Sexes, the Employment
Agency Worker Protection Act, the Act on the Employment of Foreign Workers,
the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act and the Industrial Accident
Compensation Insurance Act, stipulate prevention of human rights abuses by business
enterprises, they do not provide sufficient legal framework for implementation of
the corporate responsibility to respect human rights.
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