Annual Report 2013
expressed its opinion on the drafts to the Speaker of the National
Assembly. The Commission's opinion included the following points.
First, it is advisable to restrict the submission of information on the
education, occupation, and properties of the applicant as they may
cause discrimination in the process of recruitment and employment.
Second, it is desirable to include education in the list of discrimination
prohibition items considering the fact that educationalism causes such
undesirable side effects as excessive wage disparity, unemployment of
the highly educated, and imbalance in demand and supply of human
resources due to inflationary education.
In addition, the Commission expressed its opinion that the use of the
capacity based application form made by the Ministry of Employment
and Labor should be encouraged to address the undesirable practice of
collecting personal information which is irrelevant to job performance.
As to the establishment of punishment provisions against recruitment
discrimination in the Framework Act on Employment Policy, the
Commission stated that such an establishment should be reconsidered
citing the following reasons: as individual statutes have their own
punishment provisions against the discrimination of reasons such as
age, gender, and disability, new provisions against discrimination will
cause the decrease in the effectiveness of remedy and confusion due to
the duplication of remedial procedures, and the increase of confliction
resolution cost.
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II. Major Activities of the Commission