Ministry of Employment: "85% of Special Employment Workers Want to Enroll in Employment Insurance"

Survey of 3,350 Workers in 14 Special Employment Types Including Insurance Agents and Caddies
Women in Their 40s-50s with Income of 2-3 Million KRW Show High Willingness to Enroll

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bo-kyung] The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced the results of a survey conducted on about 3,000 special-type workers (teukgo), such as insurance planners and delivery drivers, revealing that over 85% of them want to enroll in employment insurance.

The Ministry announced on the 10th the results of a survey conducted on 3,350 workers from 14 special-type occupations who received the first emergency employment stabilization subsidy.

According to this survey, 85.2% of respondents expressed their intention to enroll in employment insurance.

By occupation, the highest willingness to enroll was seen among private tutor teachers (92.4%), rental product visit inspectors (92.1%), credit card membership recruiters (89.9%), visiting teachers (89.1%), and loan recruiters (87.9%).

Golf course caddies (68.3%), freight truck drivers (79.0%), and delivery drivers (79.8%) showed relatively lower willingness to enroll in employment insurance.

By gender, women (86.1%) showed slightly higher willingness to enroll than men (83.9%). By age group, those in their 40s and 50s showed higher willingness to enroll.

Looking at willingness to enroll by age group, those under their 20s showed 83.0%, 30s 82.1%, 40s 85.6%, 50s 86.9%, and 60 and above 83.7%.

By income, the highest willingness was among those earning 2 to 3 million KRW per month (87.2%), while those earning over 4 million KRW showed somewhat lower willingness (80.6%).

Those earning less than 1 million KRW per month showed 83.6%, 1 to 2 million KRW 85.8%, 2 to 3 million KRW 87.2%, 3 to 4 million KRW 83.6%, and over 4 million KRW 80.6%.

Survey Results on the Intention to Enroll in Employment Insurance for Special Employment Workers

"Employment insurance premiums, equally shared by employer and worker at 0.6% of monthly income" received the highest response

When asked about the appropriate share ratio for employment insurance premiums, 87.3% responded that "employers and workers should share equally at a 5:5 ratio."

Next were "workers should bear a slightly higher proportion" (7.1%) and "workers should bear the entire employment insurance premium" (5.6%).

Regarding the level of employment insurance premiums, nearly half (49.9%) answered that "0.6% of monthly income" is appropriate.

"0.8% of monthly income" followed with 41.9%, while responses indicating 1.0% and 1.2% were 7.4% and 0.8%, respectively.

The employment insurance premium rate borne by general workers is 0.8% of monthly income, and employers pay the same amount.

When asked about reasons for difficulty in enrolling in employment insurance, the most common response (multiple answers allowed) was "because it seems like they will have to pay additional taxes or national pension, health insurance premiums, etc." This reason was selected as the main difficulty in enrolling in employment insurance in 12 out of the 14 occupations.

However, for home appliance installation technicians and freight truck drivers, the response "I want to enroll but the immediate burden of employment insurance premiums is too heavy" was relatively high.

Results of the Main Reasons for Job Change Survey

"Many change jobs due to low income... Caddies show increased dissatisfaction with working conditions"

Analyzing the main reasons for job changes (multiple answers allowed), among the 14 occupations, 13 except golf course caddies selected "low income."

Credit card membership recruiters (82.6%), substitute drivers (73.7%), and door-to-door salespeople (72.0%) showed high rates of "changed jobs due to insufficient income."

Golf course caddies cited "dissatisfaction with working conditions" (45.1%) as the main reason for job change more than "low income" (42.7%).

Occupations that selected "dissatisfaction with working conditions" as the main reason for job change included rental product visit inspectors (63.2%), private tutor teachers (56.9%), and delivery drivers (53.2%).

Kwon Ki-seop, Director of Employment Policy at the Ministry of Employment and Labor, stated, "Through this survey, we found that the majority of special-type workers wish to enroll in employment insurance, and that women and those in their 40s and 50s have slightly higher willingness to enroll."

He added, "Issues related to labor provision conditions and difficulties will be reflected during legislative discussions in the regular National Assembly session. We will also promote key contents such as unemployment benefit eligibility so that workers can easily understand them."

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