Gyeonggi-do Proposes to Government to Expand "Improvement of Rest Facilities for Vulnerable Workers" as a National Project

Development and Implementation of Rest Facility Improvement Indicators, Request for National Funding Support

[Asia Economy Reporter La Young-cheol] Gyeonggi Province has officially requested the government and the National Assembly to amend related laws and expand the rest facility improvement project to a national project in order to secure adequate rest facilities for vulnerable workers such as cleaners and security guards.

Gyeonggi Province announced on the 3rd that it delivered a "petition for legal amendments to improve rest facilities for vulnerable workers" to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the National Assembly on the 29th of last month.

The province requested that the National Assembly promptly approve the amendment to the "Industrial Safety and Health Act," which includes the employer's obligation to install rest facilities, and that the government swiftly implement follow-up legislation at the national level.

It also proposed including quantitative area standards and conditions for rest facilities in the "Regulations on Housing Construction Standards, etc." The intention is to secure rest facility space separately from the management office and to present a minimum area to create conditions for sufficient rest.

In terms of securing actual rest facility area, the proposal includes excluding rest facility area from the floor area ratio calculation under the "Enforcement Decree of the Building Act" and expanding the rest facility improvement project to a national-level project.

To this end, the proposal also includes reflecting rest facility improvement indicators in the government joint evaluation items and specifying the necessity of national funding support for related projects.

The province is promoting the project by investing 4.86 billion KRW to improve a total of 378 rest facilities, starting with feasible parts related to the policy for improving rest facilities for vulnerable workers.

It has improved 172 rest facilities across 108 public institution workplaces, newly established or improved 57 rest facilities in universities and apartment complexes in the private sector, and plans to improve an additional 149 facilities this year.

Kim Gyu-sik, Director of the Labor Bureau, said, "Since the rest facility improvement policy is an issue to be continuously promoted by forming a government-wide task force, I hope it will definitely be promoted as a government-level policy project."

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