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[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] New support systems for workers and dependents will be established in the family-friendly certification standards, and detailed indicators such as annual leave usage rate and family care leave utilization rate will be improved.
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family will hold a public hearing on the 22nd at the Korean Women's Development Institute in Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, to revise the certification standards for family-friendly companies. Family-friendly companies, academia, and field experts will attend the hearing.
The Ministry plans to improve the indicators, which were mainly focused on child birth and childcare support systems, to better complement work-life balance. The family-friendly certification system was introduced in 2008 to promote a culture of work-life balance in the workplace and grants certification to companies that operate family-friendly systems exemplary. As of last year, the number of certified companies was 4,918.
The proposed improvements to the certification standards include establishing a new category called "Support Systems for Workers and Dependents" (10 points) and diversifying detailed evaluation indicators. The score for implementing family-friendly systems will increase from the existing 60 points to 70 points, and five new detailed evaluation indicators will be added: △ annual leave usage rate △ family care leave and family care vacation utilization △ worker and family health support systems △ family leisure activity support △ operation of family participation programs.
To promote family-friendly systems even in small businesses such as SMEs, the existing evaluation method, which automatically assigns scores proportionally when there are no eligible users for childbirth and childcare support systems, will be improved. For SMEs without eligible users for childbirth and childcare support systems, "child education support" will be used as an evaluation indicator.
The Ministry plans to finalize the improved family-friendly company certification standards by the end of the year, reflecting opinions presented at the public hearing. The improvements will be applied starting from the family-friendly company certification review in April 2023.
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Kim Sukja, Director of Family Policy at the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, said, "Through the improved family-friendly certification standards, we hope to create a family-friendly workplace culture where all workers, including single-person households, can practically utilize work-family balance systems."
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