Seoul City Fully Implements Blockchain-Based Non-Face-to-Face 'Electronic Labor Contracts' in Public Jobs

Completion of System for Signing and Storing Employment Contracts via PC and Smartphones Instead of Paper Documents

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] Seoul City announced on the 7th that it has established the 'Seoul Job Electronic Labor Contract System,' a public job electronic labor contract platform based on blockchain technology, and will conduct a pilot operation until the end of the year before fully implementing it next year.

This system utilizes 'Seoul Pass Authentication,' an authentication service independently developed by Seoul City recently, and incorporates the know-how from last year's government-led 'Blockchain Public Leading Pilot Project' which developed the 'Part-time Worker Rights Protection Blockchain Platform.'

From now on, participants in Seoul City's public jobs can complete labor contracts by authenticating themselves on the site via their PC or smartphone and entering only personal information such as name and contact details. In the 'Career Management' menu, all work experience from signed labor contracts can be clearly checked, and when a career certificate is needed for employment, it can be easily downloaded as a PDF.

The entire process from signing labor contracts to storage and history management, which was previously done manually and face-to-face, will be converted to a non-face-to-face method through online and digital means. Since authentication and electronic signatures are performed using blockchain technology that fundamentally prevents data tampering, the reliability of contracts and protection of personal information are significantly enhanced.

The scale of Seoul City's public job projects, including public work and New Deal jobs, is about 15,000 people annually, and most workplaces have been manually creating and storing paper labor contracts. When participants request career certificates, they have to visit the project manager individually to apply, and there is also concern about personal information exposure due to paper document management.

The city expects that this will especially protect the labor rights of part-time workers who have difficulty managing their careers by enabling them to manage their career certificates directly, and will serve as an opportunity to open the era of data self-sovereignty.

Institutions or departments in charge of public jobs can also easily create standard labor contracts using contract forms tailored to the characteristics of individual projects through the platform, significantly reducing the workload related to creating and managing paper contracts and the social costs associated with manual management.

The city plans to pilot this electronic labor contract service with 216 participants of the 'Seoul Data Supporters,' a hope job project by the Seoul Digital Foundation, and after reflecting improvements based on user satisfaction, expand it to all public job projects in Seoul City next year.

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