Key Activities E. Discrimination Based on Social Status Assignment of fixed-term employees on night shifts On January 23, the Commission recommended the director of a medical center not to differentiate fixed-term workers and indefinite-term contract workers in terms of shifts. The medical center treated fixed-term workers differently from indefinite-term workers. The victims, who were formerly outsourced from an external service agency but later hired as fixedterm cleaning employees by the center based on the government’s public sector employment policy, were placed on night shifts, while indefinite-term workers were placed on day shifts. The Commission concluded that fixed-term employees are not specifically specialized in night-time work, the intensity of work of the night and day shifts is unlikely to be essentially different, and the user’s claim that there was a need to distinguish the work performed by fixed-term employees who don’t get paid a bonus and those performed by indefinite-term workers cannot be a justifiable reason. The medical center accepted the recommendation and notified that actions were taken to include both fixed-term and indefinite-term workers in the night shift. Discriminatory payment of welfare points to a cook hired under an indefinite-term contract On May 3, the Commission recommended the director of an agency to give the same amount of additional welfare points to both indefinite-term employees and regular employees based on seniority. The agency only paid basic welfare points to the petitioner, a cook hired under an indefiniteterm contract, but not the additional, seniority-based welfare points because the channel through which the petitioner was hired and the duty performed are different from those with a permanent position. The Commission concluded that the intent of selective welfare programs is to raise employee morale and improve work conditions, so welfare points should be given equally to all employees who have a working contract with the agency. It also concluded that the fact that there are a few part-time workers to whom the welfare point program does not apply cannot be a justifiable reason 104