Gwangju City Completes Hiring of 3,565 Public Life-Type Jobs

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 28th that it has selected 3,565 citizens as participants in the 1st phase of the 2nd stage of the COVID-19 response citizen public job project.

The citizen public jobs were prepared as part of the "5th Livelihood Stabilization Measures," announced by Mayor Lee Yong-seop to hire more than 12,000 citizens this year in two stages to stabilize the lives of citizens struggling due to COVID-19 and revive the local economy.

In particular, the "public job project hiring about 12,000 citizens" is being actively promoted as the largest-scale nationwide employment shock response directly linked to livelihoods, which is the core of overcoming the local economic crisis and economic recovery measures.

Following the 971 public jobs in the 1st phase of the living quarantine sector hired on the 12th of last month, the 3,565 selected this time will participate in the 1st phase of the 2nd stage project consisting of 10 living-type public job projects in the fields of environment, transportation, childcare, and quarantine public services.

Among the 4,862 applicants who applied for the project from the 22nd of last month to June 1st through the Gwangju city website internet application or through city hall, district offices, and administrative welfare centers, citizens who are vulnerable to employment and those experiencing sudden unemployment or business closure due to COVID-19 were given priority selection based on objective and fair criteria.

By project, 2,103 people were selected for 7 projects in the environmental maintenance and improvement field, 772 for the safety keeper project such as child protection zones in the transportation safety field, 316 for the Dream Tree Support Group project such as local children's centers in the childcare support field, and 374 for the neighborhood living quarantine project in the living quarantine field for infectious disease prevention and spread control.

The final selected candidates were individually notified of their employment through the respective autonomous districts on the 26th and will be deployed on-site and start working from the 1st of next month. Working hours are 5 hours per day, and depending on the project, they will work for 3 to 6 months.

Lee Jeong-sam, head of the Citizen Public Job Support Center of the city, said, "We are proactively creating and providing large-scale direct public sector jobs to give hope and a strong support to the employment-vulnerable groups going through difficult times amid the COVID-19 crisis," and added, "We will also ensure the safety of participants by strictly adhering to quarantine guidelines in preparation for the possibility of COVID-19 resurgence."

Meanwhile, Gwangju City is accelerating preparations to recruit participants early next month by designing the 2nd phase 2nd project of citizen public jobs for about 4,400 people to guarantee sufficient participation opportunities so that anyone in need of livelihood support due to local economic recession, such as employment-vulnerable groups, those on leave due to COVID-19, and unpaid leave workers, can participate in public jobs.

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