4) To abolish the policy of requiring an applicant for industrial accident benefits to acquire their employer's signature. In response, the Minister of Employment and Labor accepted parts of the recommendations related to improvements for the approval criteria of occupational diseases and for greater independence, impartiality and professionalism of occupational disease approval committees. 2) Investigations of Human Rights Conditions and Key Findings □ Study for the Improvement of Legal Provisions, Institutions, Policies and Practices Concerning Business and Human Rights The purpose of this study was to review the domestic status and conditions of legal provisions, institutions, policies and practices concerning business and human rights and to propose measures for improving the institutional systems. The study introduces international standards on the issue of business and human rights and related examples, namely EU cases and the United Nations policy framework, which rests on the three pillars of the state’s duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect all human rights, and greater access to effective remedies. Based on the basic studies, this study covers extensive labor rights issues as they relate to the Labor Standard Act, the Minimum Wage Act, the Act on the Protection of Fixed-term and Part-time Employees, the Act on the Protection of Temporary Agency Workers, the Act on the Employment of Foreign Workers and other laws of collective labor relations. It evaluates the current institutional practices and policies related to labor and presents measures for further improvement. It also proposes domestic laws and systems related to business and human rights, including the corporate laws and consumer relations laws, in detail, as well as improvement measures. By presenting detailed examples of domestic laws, systems and policies, the research attempts to shed light on the future course of recommendations that needs to be issued in respect to enterprises and human rights. 78 Part II. Major Activities of the Commission

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