Technology revise the Guidelines on the Payment of Performance Bonus to Public Educational Personnel so that days of maternity leave taken and the hours spent nursing and feeding babies were counted as working hours as a criterion (example) used to assess the performance of teachers. Also, the superintendents of 17 city and provincial Offices of Education were advised to strengthen the supervision and inspection of schools to ensure that teachers would not be treated disadvantageously, as far as the payment of performance bonuses was concerned, if they took maternity leave (November 30, 2012). Q. Recommendation to Improve the Right of Migrant Workers in Offshore Fishing The NHRCK performed am investigation on the human rights conditions of fishery migrant workers in consideration of the fact that the issue of violation of human rights of fishing migrant workers has been receiving attention from inside and outside Korea. The investigation focused on the crew of fishing vessels with a gross tonnage of more than 20 tons, who are issued E-10 visas and subject to the Seafarers Act. The investigation validated that migrant workforce in the fishery industry are subject to human rights violations throughout the entire process from sending the workers to their country of destination to their separation from the workplace. Accordingly, the Commission recommended that government agencies improve the system affiliated therewith. (December 6, 2012) The following recommendations were made to the Minister of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs: i) build a migrant worker recruitment system by public organizations; ii) ensure that the principles of equal treatment of migrant workers and Korean nationals, continue the ban on unreasonable discrimination against workers of foreign nationalities in the Seafarers Act, and correct wage discrimination by disseminating standard labor contracts and amending the current public notices, according to which fishing migrant workers are not guaranteed the legal minimum wage but their wage is set by labor-management agreements unlike Korean nationals; iii) establish mid- to long-term plans to assure fishing migrant workers an appropriate level of welfare services such as the 54 Part II. Major Activities of the Commission