산재보험법과 플랫폼 사업주의 책임

Abstract

With forms of employment currently becoming various, it is more necessary than ever to apply the industrial accident compensation insurance to freelance workers in special employment types including platform workers as the number of them is increasing. The problem, however, is not readily solved as to who are to pay the insurance cost if the freelance workers in special employment types including platform workers when the industrial accident compensation insurance scheme is applied to them under the current scheme. This paper suggests the possibility of applying industrial accient compensation insurance scheme to the the freelance workers in special employment types, particularly the platform workers providing services through the platform acting as a work agent or a manager to provide service. For this, this paper examines first of all whether the platform business owner is really a business owner under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act who has responsibility to pay the insurance cost. This paper concluses the platform business owner is responsible to pay the insurance cost for the platform workers.