‘산업전환고용안정법’의 쟁점과 과제

Abstract

Among the factors affecting employment relations in the recent labor market, the most important changes are the serious ‘demand for carbon neutrality due to the climate crisis’ and ‘acceleration of the digital economy due to the advancement of digital technology’. These two changes bring about changes at various levels such as industry, industry, occupation, job, etc., new skills or people with new skills can replace existing jobs, and they also cause changes in working methods, leading to employment instability. is raising concerns. Discussions on legislative revision to respond to these changes can be discussed in various ways at the level of employment-related laws such as the Basic Employment Policy Act and the Employment Insurance Act, or labor-management relations such as the Labor Standards Act and the Labor Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act. However, because the discussion on revising the existing law has not yet accumulated sufficient discussion and there are various controversies, priority has been given to new legislation. Accordingly, in this paper, we examine the validaty of the final legislative result and future tasks through a comparison between bills proposed by members of the National Assembly, focusing on issues during the enactment of the ‘Industrial Transition and Employment Stability Act’ in August 2023. The main issues are (i) the content of the purpose of the law, (ii) definition of new legal terms such as industrial transition and labor transition, (iii) scope of workers eligible for support, (iv) social dialogue as a policy decision-making process, (v) the establishment of a specialized committee under the Basic Employment Policy Act, (ⅵ) the method of assigning tasks to agencies for prior evaluation of employment impact and employment stability support agencies, etc. The results of discussions on legislation in the National Assembly are generally evaluated as ensuring the effectiveness of the enactment of the Industrial Transition and Employment Stability Act through harmonization of the legal system by excluding content that conflicts with existing laws. The urgent remaining task in the future is how to harmonize the law to promote industrial conversion of companies and the Industrial Transition and Employment Stability Act, and economic entities such as the government and labor-management organizations to implement the contents of the various laws presented in the Industrial Transition and Employment Stabilization Act. The task of minimizing conflict through social dialogue during the industrial transition process and revising existing labor relations laws to suit the industrial transition era is also a consideration that requires continuous research. Legislative and practical solutions to this end remain as additional research topics.