1. Labor disputes regarding pending labor issues, including the reduction of working hours during the parliamentary inspection period
Two umbrella unions plan to make an issue of working hours reduction and the abolishment of the MOEL’s corrective orders to collective agreements during the parliamentary inspection in 2017 (12 ~ 31 October). Officials from the FKTU visited offices of lawmakers in both the ruling and the opposition parties and delivered policy reference booklets. They also requested inquiries on related issues.
The KCTU (Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) held a presentation on the Agenda of the Parliamentary Inspection for the members of the Environment & Labor Committee, and they demanded that agendas such as minimum wage and withdrawal of the government’s claim for damage compensation regarding union activities should be addressed during the parliamentary inspection.
< Two Umbrella Unions’ Major Agendas in the Parliamentary Inspection >
| Major Agendas | |
| FKTU | · Ratify the ILO Fundamental Conventions (No. 29, No. 87, No. 98, and No. 105) |
| · Reduce working hours | |
| · Abolish Article 31③ of the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act (Corrective orders to collective agreements) | |
| · Pay all overdue wages | |
| KCTU | · Come up with measures to prevent employers from avoiding real wage increase by extending recess time; and from including items that are excluded from the minimum wage to basic wages |
| · Withdraw lawsuits on compensation for damages and provisional attachments regarding union activities | |
| · Punish unfair labor practices, including maintaining multiple trade unions which participated to destroy other trade unions | |
| · Grant autonomy for labor and management on deciding wages of full-time union officials
· Abolish unifying the collective bargaining channel system |
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| · Abolish corrective orders to collective agreements |