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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-