Inquiry on Group Order for Resident Physicians to Start Work... ILO "Not Qualified"

On the 11th, as collective actions by doctors, centered around residents, continue, a nurse is busy moving around at a secondary general hospital in Seoul. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

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The resident doctors' association requested an opinion inquiry from the International Labour Organization (ILO), claiming that the government's work commencement order violated the Forced Labour Convention. However, the ILO dismissed the request as 'not qualified' and closed the case internally.

On the 21st, the Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that the ILO handled the Korean Intern Resident Doctors Association's request for an opinion inquiry, which argued that the government's work commencement order violated ILO Convention No. 29 on Forced Labour, in this manner.

The Ministry explained, "When the ILO Secretariat receives an opinion inquiry request from labor-management organizations, it usually notifies the government of the country concerned within a few days and requests the government's opinion. However, the ILO Secretariat did not provide such notification, and upon the government's inquiry to the ILO Secretariat, this was confirmed."

It is also known that the ILO notified the requesting party of this fact.

According to the ILO Secretariat, the qualification to request an opinion inquiry is limited to governments or representative domestic and international labor-management organizations that are members of the ILO tripartite structure. The Korean Intern Resident Doctors Association was not recognized as qualified to request an opinion inquiry.

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