[2023 National Audit] Lee Jeong-sik, Minister of Employment, "Working Hours Survey Analysis to Be Announced Soon... Preparing Improvement Measures"

On the 12th, Lee Jeong-sik, Minister of Employment and Labor, stated regarding the revised 69-hour workweek system under supplementation, "We will transparently explain the results as soon as the survey analysis is completed and prepare directions for improvement."

During his opening remarks at the National Assembly's Environment and Labor Committee (Hwan-no-wi) employment ministry audit on the same day, Minister Lee said, "We will steadily promote labor reform, a key national agenda, including modernizing outdated and old labor norms." He also stated, "We will strengthen supervision together with related ministries regarding wage arrears and expand economic sanctions on habitual arrears to eradicate them," and added, "We will change unfair hiring practices, workplace bullying, and other unjust and irrational workplace cultures and customs."

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Regarding the linkage between union accounting disclosure, which has been in effect since the 1st, and union member tax deduction benefits, he said, "To ensure transparency and autonomy in union operations, we will support the establishment of infrastructure such as an accounting disclosure system and autonomous control measures, along with institutional improvements." On resolving the dual structure of the labor market, he said, "We will encourage primary and subcontractors to autonomously conclude win-win agreements and support the autonomous reform and expansion of win-win wage systems between labor and management," adding, "We will prepare specific measures through discussions such as those at the Economic, Social and Labor Council (Gyeong-sa-no-wi)."

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