2024-07-17 13:49:41
With “the intention to use the law politically”
Application for agenda adjustment committee after so-called non-voting
Wild “Anjowi speed battle… July processing target”
Business community: “Labor and management collapse due to strategic decisions”
The opposition Democratic Party of Korea and other parties passed the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act Amendment (Yellow Envelope Act) alone in the subcommittee of the National Assembly Environment and Labor Committee on the 16th. The ruling party protested, boycotted the subcommittee vote, and then applied for the agenda adjustment committee. The agenda adjustment committee is an organization for discussing agenda items where the ruling and opposition parties have different opinions, but it is likely to be composed of two People Power Party members and four opposition party members (three from the Democratic Party and one from the Progressive Party), so analysis is that it is only a matter of time before it passes the agenda adjustment committee. The six economic organizations held an emergency meeting that day to protest the opposition party’s passage alone in the subcommittee, saying, “They are destroying labor-management relations and collapsing the national economy with strategic judgment.”
● Opposition: “It must be passed within the National Assembly in July”
The Yellow Envelope Act was passed in the plenary session of the 21st National Assembly under the leadership of the Democratic Party and other opposition parties, but was ultimately scrapped when President Yoon Seok-yeol exercised his right to demand reconsideration (veto). The Yellow Envelope Act, which was reintroduced by the six opposition parties including the Democratic Party last month after the opening of the 22nd National Assembly, includes provisions that limit the company’s right to claim compensation for damages caused by illegal disputes and prohibit individual union members from being held jointly liable in the event of damages caused by illegal disputes. In addition, a provision was added to Article 2 of the Trade Union Act, which stipulates the nature of workers, stating that “A person who has organized or joined a labor union is presumed to be a worker,” allowing special employment workers and platform workers who are self-employed to form labor unions and engage in disputes against companies, and it is evaluated that the content is stronger than the bill that was scrapped in the 21st National Assembly.
The Democratic Party, which passed the subcommittee meeting of the Environment and Labor Committee just five days after adopting the yellow envelope law as a party platform on the 11th, is aiming to process it within the National Assembly in July. It is also intended to process the agenda coordination committee requested by the ruling party as quickly as possible. A Democratic Party Environment and Labor Committee official said, “We are also considering holding an agenda coordination committee this week, passing it through the Legislation and Judiciary Committee, and processing it within the National Assembly in July,” adding, “There is no reason to delay processing it, as it is a bill that has no constitutional risks and is unlikely to conflict with the Civil Act.”
The agenda coordination committee consists of six members, and if four or more of them agree, the bill can be sent to the plenary session. This agenda coordination committee is expected to consist of three members from the Democratic Party, two from the People Power Party, and one from the Progressive Party, so the Democratic Party is planning to neutralize the agenda coordination committee by obtaining the cooperation of the Progressive Party.
● “They are trying to use the law politically”
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On the 16th, at the plenary session of the National Assembly Environment and Labor Committee, the ruling party’s floor leader, People Power Party lawmaker Kim Hyung-dong (right) is protesting to the Democratic Party’s Environment and Labor Committee Chairman Ahn Ho-young regarding the agenda. News 1
The ruling party protested the opposition party’s unilateral handling, saying, “There has not been sufficient discussion on the bill yet.” Rep. Kim Hyung-dong of the People Power Party, who is the floor leader of the Environment and Labor Committee, said, “The yellow envelope law has been established as the Democratic Party’s party line, and discussions and expressions of opinions have been blocked,” and “Attempting to pass legislation by expanding the concept of workers is nothing more than using the law politically.”
The executive vice-chairmen of six major economic organizations (the Federation of Korean Industries, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Korea International Trade Association, the Korea Economic Association, the Korea Federation of SMEs, and the Federation of SMEs of Korea) also argued at the meeting that day regarding the revision, “If the scope of employers is indiscriminately expanded and subcontracting unions continuously demand collective bargaining and engage in industrial action against prime contractors, the industrial ecosystem between prime contractors and subcontractors will collapse, and workers at subcontracting companies will lose their jobs.”
Lee Dong-geun, executive vice chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries, pointed out that “despite the fact that the vast majority of damages issues surrounding illegal industrial action currently stem from the practice of violently occupying workplaces, the revised bill does not contain any content to improve this,” and that “by effectively blocking claims for damages for illegal industrial action, it is encouraging extreme illegal industrial action.”
Reporter Seungwoo Lee [email protected]
Reporter Han Jae-hee [email protected]
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