'Improvement of Apartment Security Short-Term Contracts Under One Year'... Gyeonggi-do Revises Guidelines

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Gyeonggi Province has decided to actively encourage management entities to enter into labor contracts of one year or longer, rather than short-term contracts, with service workers to ensure employment stability for apartment security workers.

On the 28th, Gyeonggi Province revised and implemented the "19th Gyeonggi Province Apartment Complex Management Regulations" containing this provision.

The revision includes a clause that requires apartment security service companies to cooperate in signing labor contracts with workers for a period of one year or longer, considering the stable execution of services and employment stability of workers.

Earlier, Gyeonggi Province conducted a survey last year on the labor contract periods of apartment security workers in 1,611 apartment complexes within the province, revealing that 49.9% of contracts were short-term, lasting six months or less. Although such short-term contracts are not illegal, the province judged that they contributed to security workers' difficulties in voicing complaints about unfair treatment or abuse of power, prompting this revision of the regulations.

The "Gyeonggi Province Apartment Complex Management Regulations" serve as a standard for the management or use of apartment complexes to protect residents and maintain order in residential life. Apartment complexes subject to mandatory management with 300 or more households (or 150 or more if elevators are installed) will refer to the revised regulations and proceed with amendments to their apartment complex management rules suitable for their complex with the approval of the majority of all residents.

Lee Gye-sam, Director of the Urban Housing Office of Gyeonggi Province, stated, "Apartment security workers are experiencing employment instability due to short-term contracts on site, so we prepared this improvement plan," and added, "We hope this will contribute to establishing a positive apartment management culture based on coexistence between apartment workers and residents."

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