Busan City and Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office Sign Agreement to Strengthen Welfare and Employment Linkage

Promise of Welfare and Employment Cooperation at City Hall on the 15th at 10 AM

Discovering and Connecting Vulnerable Groups, Customized Welfare and Employment Support

Busan City and the Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office signed a "Business Agreement to Strengthen Welfare and Employment Linkage" at 10 a.m. on the 15th in the International Protocol Room on the 7th floor of City Hall.

Signing Ceremony of Business Agreement.

This agreement was prepared to actively cooperate so that the two organizations, deeply agreeing that "jobs are the best welfare," can help welfare recipients such as low-income groups achieve self-reliance and exit welfare through employment.

At the signing ceremony, Deputy Mayor Ahn Byung-yoon and Yang Seong-pil, head of the Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office, attended and declared the strengthening of linkage between local governments and central ministries, as well as welfare and employment policies, promising to provide integrated welfare and employment services to Busan citizens based on local government welfare projects and the National Employment Support System.

Upon signing the agreement, ▲ Busan City will guide and connect welfare recipients with work ability who wish to find employment, managed by local governments, metropolitan/regional self-sufficiency centers, and homeless self-sufficiency facilities, to apply for the National Employment Support System, cooperating to enable them to receive integrated employment support services from the Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office, from establishing individual employment activity plans to vocational training, work experience, and job placement.

Through this, it is expected that employment support services can be guided to about 13,000 welfare project participants annually, and by utilizing Busan City's "Jalip Kkuldanji" counseling chatbot, administrative welfare centers and welfare/employment agencies will support 24-hour integrated welfare-employment counseling and information provision even during off-hours, thereby expanding the scale of welfare-employment linkage projects.

Additionally, ▲ the Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office will actively operate a case management council involving welfare and self-sufficiency officers and the Busan Metropolitan Self-Sufficiency Center to support participants in the National Employment Support System in overcoming employment barriers caused by caregiving, finance, psychology, health, and other factors.

Targeting 38,000 participants in the National Employment Support System in the Busan area annually, the office plans to closely cooperate with Busan City to provide not only welfare services but also Busan City's own employment support programs, enabling customized job-seeking activities tailored to each participant's characteristics.

Guide to the National Employment Support System.

Yang Seong-pil, head of the Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office, stated, "There has been a consensus that the linkage between central ministries and local governments in employment and welfare, as well as the protection of employment-vulnerable groups, is part of labor reform for future generations," and added, "Starting with this agreement, we hope it becomes an opportunity for many citizens to actively receive help through the National Employment Support System by finding and providing integrated employment and welfare services needed by employment-vulnerable groups."

Deputy Mayor Ahn Byung-yoon said, "The establishment of a cooperative system with the Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office this time has created an opportunity for local governments and central ministries to cooperate and provide integrated welfare and employment support services," adding, "We will do our best so that welfare and employment policies are delivered to citizens not as two separate policies but as 'one policy package,' and many exemplary cases of vulnerable groups achieving stable self-reliance and finding hope through employment can be created."

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