Daegu Office of Education Selects Officer Lee Hyun-joo as Best Public Official ... Labor Law Self-Diagnosis Check

‘Excellence’ Award Goes to Cha Yuna and Kim Daeik, Senior Officers

The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education selected the ‘2023 First Half Active Administration Outstanding Public Officials’ on the 31st to discover and share active administration cases that resonate with education demanders, thereby promoting active administration and fostering an organizational culture.

For the 2023 first half active administration outstanding cases, a total of nine cases were recommended. After review by the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education Active Administration Committee, six outstanding cases were selected, and six outstanding public officials who contributed to these cases were chosen. The final ranking was determined by comprehensively considering factors such as proactiveness, creativity, and expertise in task execution, the perceived impact by education demanders, the importance and difficulty of the tasks, and the potential for dissemination.

Lee Hyun-joo, selected as the Best Public Official.

As a result of the selection, the ‘Grand Prize’ was awarded to Lee Hyun-joo, an administrative officer in the Administrative Management Division of the Metropolitan Office of Education, who actively prevented labor-related complaints from education public employees by implementing a self-diagnosis checklist for labor-related laws. The self-diagnosis checklist for labor-related laws was inspired by the checklist used annually by the Ministry of Employment and Labor for general business owners to ensure compliance with labor laws, and was restructured and uniquely implemented by the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education, the only one among the 17 metropolitan and provincial offices of education to do so.

In particular, by unifying the scattered standards related to education public employees into a ‘self-diagnosis checklist’ and enabling simultaneous self-diagnosis and corrective actions, it contributed to protecting workers’ rights and interests, reducing the workload of task managers, and improving labor management efficiency.

For the ‘Excellence’ award, Cha Yu-na, an administrative officer at the Western Education Support Office, was recognized for utilizing a nearby closed school as a temporary classroom during the Green Smart School project, preventing safety accidents during construction and ensuring students’ right to learn, contributing to a budget saving of 1.95 billion KRW. Kim Dae-ik, an administrative officer in the Educational Facilities Division of the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education, was selected for changing the work method by transferring the existing modular classroom lease contract to another school, relocating the existing temporary classrooms to schools implementing the Green Smart School project, and conducting integrated orders after surveying modular classroom demand by support office, thereby contributing to budget savings and reducing workload at education support offices.

For the ‘Encouragement’ award, Seo Mi-young, administrative director of Dongin Elementary School, was recognized for securing a temporary student commuting path by obtaining free use permission for private land owned by a nearby animal hospital to create a safe commuting environment amid Green Smart School construction. Kwon Cheol-han, an administrative officer in the Educational Facilities Division of the Metropolitan Office of Education, was awarded for resolving complaints and saving budget through continuous negotiations with landowners regarding private land occupied by public schools. Park Seong-bong, an administrative officer at the Daegu School Support Center, was selected for standardizing the working conditions of public school janitors, which varied by school, according to class size, thereby boosting workers’ motivation and creating a pleasant educational environment.

The outstanding public officials selected for active administration this time will receive incentives such as preferential performance bonuses by grade, priority selection for training, desired transfers, and commendations from the Superintendent of Education. Additionally, incentives will be significantly expanded by granting one day of reward leave and extra points in the integrity commitment evaluation.

Lee Hyun-joo, the administrative officer in the Administrative Management Division who was selected as the grand prize winner, said, “Through on-site consulting and other efforts, we will continuously improve the self-diagnosis checklist so that frontline schools (institutions) can easily utilize it by actively reflecting field opinions.”

The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education plans to select and reward outstanding active administration organizations along with outstanding cases and public officials in the second half of the year. Kang Eun-hee, Superintendent of Daegu Education, stated, “We will continuously create conditions that allow public officials to pursue creative, flexible thinking and proactive work so that active administration that education demanders can feel will spread as an organizational culture.”

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