Employment Minister: "We Will Eradicate Evasion and Privilege Mentality and Protect Vulnerable Workers"

Visited Daejeon Combined Heat and Power Plant on 'Workers' Day'

Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Jeong-sik is giving a briefing on "Strengthening Transparency in Labor Union Accounting and Eradicating Unfair Hiring Practices" at the Government Seoul Office Annex in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the 20th of last month. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

Lee Jeong-sik, Minister of Employment and Labor, met with employees of Daejeon Combined Heat and Power Plant in Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, on the 1st, Labor Day, and emphasized, "We will root out all kinds of loopholes and a sense of privilege and protect the rights of vulnerable workers."

According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, Minister Lee visited the Daejeon Combined Heat and Power Plant in the afternoon to encourage the workers on duty. The schedule was held privately from the media.

The Daejeon Combined Heat and Power Plant supplies heating, cooling, and electricity to the local industrial complex and 50,000 households.

Minister Lee encouraged the power plant workers who work in shifts even on Labor Day and listened to the opinions of executives and employees on creating a better workplace.

Minister Lee said, "By focusing the Ministry of Employment and Labor's capabilities on planned supervision of the abuse of comprehensive wages, long working hours supervision, maternity protection, and the online labor-management corruption reporting center, we will establish laws and principles on site, root out all kinds of loopholes and privileges, and protect the legitimate rights of vulnerable workers that must be guaranteed."

He continued, "To ensure the smooth promotion of labor reform, we will create a fair and healthy labor market that the public can feel by sufficiently listening to and communicating with various opinions from the field, including labor and management on site, experts, and youth, as we did today."

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