행정기관 무기계약직 실태와 공무직제 신설 필요성에 대한 고찰

Abstract

In 2017, the new Korean government announced its plans for converting non-regular workers to regular workers in the public sector. These plans have categorized 211,950 non-fixed-term contract workers as regular workers. However, the working conditions of non-fixed-term contract workers are similar to those of fixed-term contract workers in the public sector. According to the statistics of non-fixed-term contract workers in administrative agencies, there are 20,000 non-fixed-term contract workers in the central administrative agency, while 52,000 non-fixed-term contract workers work in the local Korean government. In administrative agencies, non-fixed-term contract workers are called “official business workers”. However, their working conditions are similar to those of non-regular workers in administrative agencies. Official business workers in administrative agencies have worked at the forefront of public business service that is reluctantly carried out by public servants. This has led to an increase in the number of official business workers in administrative agencies. Although official business workers legally have their right to collective action, they do not exercise this right in reality. The main reason for this is that they can become the object of restructuring, including reduction in labor force, given that they are non-fixed-term workers in administrative agencies. Thus, they do not have substantial job security. Since some businesses carried out by non-fixed-term contract workers in administrative agencies have been abolished, those businesses have been replaced with businesses carried out by public servants. Further, the wages of official business workers under the total labor cost system are actually determined after those of public servants are. On the ground of those facts, this study proposes to set up an office for job security of official business workers.