Jinju City Greatly Improves Treatment of Child Welfare Facility Workers... The Only 'Step System' in the Province Promoted

21 Community Child Centers, 5 Together Care Centers, and 6 Child Group Homes, etc.

Jinju City Hall Exterior View

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju City, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 28th that starting from January next year, it will introduce a step-based pay system and provide job assistance allowances for workers at child welfare facilities without step-based pay, such as community child centers, Together Care Centers, and child group homes, as part of measures to improve workers' treatment.

The improvement targets include 44 workers at 21 community child centers, 10 workers at 5 Together Care Centers, and 21 workers at 6 child group homes.

Child welfare facilities such as community child centers and Together Care Centers play a key role in childcare and are essential care institutions that have continued emergency care for local children even during the COVID-19 situation. However, unlike other social welfare facilities where wages increase according to experience, workers with more than 10 years of service have not been recognized for their experience and remain at minimum wage levels.

Accordingly, Jinju City, after considering ways to improve workers' treatment, decided to be the only city in Gyeongnam Province to implement its own step-based pay system based on the Ministry of Health and Welfare's "Guidelines for Labor Costs of Social Welfare Facility Workers," compensating the difference in national subsidy amounts, and additionally provide job assistance allowances of 100,000 KRW for facility managers and 50,000 KRW for workers.

Mayor Jo Gyu-il of Jinju said, "I am always grateful to the workers who strive for child care at the forefront of welfare even amid the crisis of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19)," and added, "I will do my best so that the implementation of the step-based pay system and the provision of job assistance allowances will serve as an opportunity for workers to feel a sense of mission and fulfillment for their hard work on site."

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