Annual Report 2013 lay-off as stipulated in Article 24 Paragraph 3 of the Labor Standards Act, ii) stock-taking of the performance results of, and expansive implementing of such re-employment and livelihood stabilization projects related to the social safety nets as job change support, job finding assistance, and job skill development, iii) raising the employment continuation support fund for the stabilization of the laid-off, iv) securing fund resources for employment stabilization of the laid-off, in a longer term, the introduction of the dismissal compensation system, v) putting in efforts for the legislation of all the above-stated recommendations. C. Recommendation on the Human Rights Conditions of the Elderly The NHRCK found that the human rights conditions of the elderly, due to rapid aging, had a considerable bearing on the whole human rights conditions of our society. In this regard, the Commission issued policy recommendations, on January 28, 2013, to the Minister of Health and Welfare, the Minister of Employment and Labor, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and heads of 16 regional governments. They include: i) guaranteeing the income, the right of health, and the right of labor, ii) preparation and implementation of government measures to prevent maltreatment and suicide of the elderly. In more detail, the recommendations proposed as follows: i) finding a measure to decrease the rate of poverty of the elderly, for example, by making transfer of public money replace more of the income of the elderly through the support of increased government fund, ii) alleviating 34 ▪▪▪ Part II. Major Activities of the Commission