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A civic group says the Lee Jae-myung administration has fallen short in closing gaps in labor law as it nears its first anniversary.
Workplace Bullying 119 surveyed 105 staff — including labor consultants, attorneys and activists — and published the results on the 24th in a report titled One Year of the Lee Jae-myung Government’s Labor Policy: Expectations and Evaluation. The survey found 50.4% of respondents said the government is handling labor policy poorly.
Roughly 49.5% said labor policy is being carried out well. Yet 93.3% judged that the Lee administration has not done enough to address blind spots in labor law.
Respondents identified extending labor law coverage to workplaces with fewer than five employees as the most deficient policy (67.62%), followed by protections for gig, platform and freelance workers (45.71%), closing the gender pay gap (21.90%), and protecting migrant workers (19.05%).
By contrast, 56.1% of respondents said the government performed well on preventing industrial and major workplace accidents.
Other measures that drew notable approval included guaranteeing basic labor rights — such as amendments to Articles 2 and 3 of the Trade Union Act (54.2%) — eradicating wage arrears (24.7%), ending lump-sum pay arrangements and unpaid work (23.8%), and expanding work–family balance policies (17.14%).
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