노조전임자제도 국제비교 및 개선방안

Abstract

With the revision of Labor-related Laws at the end of 1996, all the allowance to full-time Trade Union Officials had been prohibited. Namely, employers were prohibited from remunerating those engaged in duties only for trade unions as such as Trade Union and the Labor Dispute Adjustment Act was regarded as unfair labor practices. But for businesses with such practices, a grace period has been provided until the end of 2009(Paragraph Ⅱ of Article 24, ④ of Article 81, Article 6 of the Addenda). From the same time, multiple trade unions of unit businesses will be permitted. For the subjugation the Irony which the regulations had become a mere scrap of paper, a new consultation would be required between the Tripartite, the Labor, the Management and the Government. And with the new revision of Labor-related Laws, the protection and facilities should be afforded to every type of workers' representatives including full-time Trade Union Officials and the Time-off. As the conventions and recommendations of ILO and the precedents of Global Standards had given presentations of this idea, workers' representatives should enjoy effective protection against any act prejudicial to them, based on their status or activities as a workers' representative or on union membership or participation in union activities. But every protection and facilities for workers' representatives should be gone side by side with the diminution of full-time Trade Union Officials and the self-efforts of Trade Unions. The self-efforts of Trade Unions would be included with the reshuffle and consolidation of organization, the enhancement of soundness without financial stringency, the active participation and pain-division of trade union members and the improvement of efficiency in trade union management.