The job challenges chosen by citizens are… “High-intensity labor compensation and replacement manpower for leave”

It was found that citizens want compensation for high-intensity labor and the establishment of a pool of replacement workers for parental leave as specific topics of discussion to expand the base of jobs that coexist between generations and regions and lifelong jobs.

On the 9th, the 'Special Committee on Demographic Change and Job Public Discussion' within the Economic, Social and Labor Committee, a labor-management-government dialogue organization, announced that it had derived a total of 64 action plans, including 33 in the win-win job sector and 31 in the lifelong job sector, through intensive public debate conducted with 100 citizens on the 24th and 25th of last month.

The public deliberation of the Job Special Committee consisted of four stages: the first stage of regional public deliberation with 300 citizens of the metropolitan and non-metropolitan area, the second stage of intensive public deliberation conducted this time, the third stage of general public deliberation, and the fourth stage of final public deliberation.

In this intensive public discussion, 64 specific action plans were organized in relation to the six core tasks grouped in the previous regional public discussion.

Next, citizens were surveyed on their level of sympathy (out of 7 points) for the 64 action plans.

As a result of the survey, in the field of win-win jobs, it was found that there was a high degree of sympathy for 'strengthening compensation for high-intensity and high-risk work' (6.31 points), 'ensuring the right not to be connected after work' (6.08 points), and 'expanding flexible work systems by industry' (6.06 points).

'Vitalization of communication channels to improve the treatment of workers in non-regular and small-scale businesses' (5.85 points) and 'Providing sufficient information and opportunities for capacity building by companies to expand employment opportunities for young people' (5.89 points) also received high sympathy.

In the field of lifelong employment, there was high consensus on 'establishing a human resource pool to replace public parental leave and establishing a re-employment linkage and support system' (6.02 points), 'expanding the alternative manpower system using career breakers and retirees' (5.95 points), and 'supporting attraction, discovery, and development of leading local companies' (5.94 points).

‘Fostering and supporting local specialized industries’ (5.92 points) and ‘Strengthening public care services’ (5.87 points) also showed high levels of empathy.

On the 5th, the Special Committee on Employment held a meeting in the conference room of the Economic and Labor Committee to receive reports on the contents of such intensive public debate and discuss the future direction of public deliberation.

On the 14th, the Economic and Social Affairs Committee plans to hold the third stage of public discussion, ‘30-person citizen meeting to create a citizen proposal with implementation’.

In the third stage of public discussion, the results of the previous discussions will be synthesized to review specific implementation plans and summarize them into a citizen proposal.