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Park Chan-dae, the Democratic Party of Korea’s candidate for Incheon mayor, unveiled his labor-policy platform to mark the 136th Labor Day, which was designated a national holiday for the first time this year.
On May 1, Park posted his seven labor pledges on social media, saying, “I present Incheon’s blueprint for a future-oriented labor city that guarantees every citizen the right to work safely and happily.”
His seven pledges include: establishing an Incheon-specific system to protect labor rights and strengthen oversight; improving working conditions for essential workers (caregivers, cleaners, nurses); protecting platform and mobile workers with a shelter–safety–rights package; making Incheon a city that supports migrant workers with multilingual rights assistance, skills training, and settlement services; improving key employment indicators, including narrowing the gender pay gap; launching a one-stop Youth Restart program to prevent burnout and discourage job-search dropout; and prioritizing safety, facilities, and care-related roles in career-change and reemployment programs for those aged 50 and over.
Park said he would consolidate scattered labor policies into a single, coherent package and adapt them so they work on the ground and fit citizens’ lives, expressing his commitment to implement the pledges.
He said he will first focus on establishing a rigorous, Incheon-specific labor rights and oversight system and promised, “We will build an ‘Incheon-style labor administrative system’ that combines proactive industrial-accident prevention, rights relief, and enforcement readiness to create a ‘zero industrial fatality city.'”
He added, “We will set labor-condition standards for essential workers such as cleaners, caregivers, and nurses, and fully expand living wages to indirectly employed workers. We will also guarantee delivery and substitute-driver workers’ right to rest and migrant workers’ right to settle.”
Park also said, “We will create uninterrupted career ladders for young people, women, and middle-aged workers. We will provide integrated support from counseling through job retention, reduce the gender wage gap, and ensure that mid-career experience is recognized as skilled expertise.”
He appealed, “I will do my best to make Incheon a warm industrial city where work is a source of pride and workplaces are safe. Please join me.”
On the same day, Park attended the 19th Joint Memorial for Workers Who Died on Duty and from Industrial Accidents and the 2nd Industrial Accident Workers’ Day ceremony, where he reiterated his resolve to support workers’ livelihoods and serve as a reliable ally.
/By Park Beom-jun parkbj2@incheonilbo.com
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