40 Commission's Major Activities violence involved a disciplinary discharge, and administrative support positions in General Officer front offices in the Army and Air Force headquarters were filled with female NCOs (staff sergeant or sergeant first class) only. Meanwhile, in a survey of female soldiers, responses came out in the order of “sexual violence is serious (47.6%, 81 persons),” “very serious (6.5%, 11 persons),” and “not serious (1.2%, 2 persons).” Regarding post-incident measures taken, they responded “did not take any actions (15.3%, 26 persons)” and “reported to the leadership (2.4%, 4 persons).” As to the reason for not taking actions, the response was “do not want people to know what happened (7.6%, 13 persons),” “would negatively affect remaining career and current position (5.3%, 12 persons),” and “there is no use taking actions (4.1%, 7 persons),” in this order. Thus, the Commission concluded that the situation called for comprehensive policy and institutional improvements. H. Recommendations to improve the human rights conditions for marginal part-time workers On 23 November, the Commission recommended the Minister of Employment and Labor to make changes to the relevant regulations so that marginal part-time workers become eligible for the basic protection that commonly apply to workers in general, including days off, annual paid leaves, employment issues with short-term workers who are subject to a restricted period of employment or have concluded a labor contract that does not specify the term of contract, retirement wage, and social insurance other than the industrial accident compensation insurance. It recommended to the Minister of Health and Welfare to revise Paragraph 2, Article 6 of the National Health Insurance Act and subparagraph 1, Paragraph 1, Article 3 of the Public Officials Pension Act, and other relevant regulations so that marginal part-time workers whose period of continuous service or total hours of labor is no less than a certain number of work hours and thus whose labor is recognized as having regularity and continuity be eligible for health insurance and national pension. The Commission found that the law is discriminatory in terms of social insurance, labor welfare, and job security for marginal part-time workers who work less than 15 hours a week, and that the size of this population is growing. It also found that the types of marginal part-

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