The Subcommittee on the Promotion of Social Dialogue Ends Meetings
The Subcommittee on the Promotion of Social Dialogue launched on 14 February by the Environmental & Labor Committee (ELC) of the National Assembly has finished discussions on the issues of working hour reduction as the 5th representative conference ended on 17 April. The Subcommittee failed to reach agreement on the timing of implementation of working hour reductions, permission for additional overtime work, and overtime pay rates.
[Table 1] Different Views of Business and Labor at the Subcommittee on the Promotion of Social Dialogue
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Business
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Labor
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Reduction of working hours
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– Maximum 8 hours of overtime in a week if labor and management agree (guarantee 60 hours in a week)
– Gradual implementation according to company size until 2016
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– Include holiday work in overtime working hour limits
– Take effect immediately after the law amendment
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Ordinary wage
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– Stipulate one unit of wage payment (1 month) in the law
– Stipulate items which are excluded from ordinary wage
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– Oppose stipulation of one unit of wage payment (1 month) in the law
– Recognize wages and other benefits as ordinary wage
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Improvement in labor-management / labor-government relations
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– Ease regulations on dismissal for managerial reasons
– Ease regulations on dispatched employment
– Legislate the wage peak system when retirement age is extended.
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– Strengthen regulations on dismissal for managerial reasons
– Increase time-off limits and wages for full-time union officers in accordance with labor-management agreement
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Although agreement was not reached, law are likely to pass legislating reduction of working hours and other labor issues by reflecting recommendations from the National Assembly’s Environmental & Labor Committee.