South Korea – Workers’ Rights

C. Current Status

1. Domestic Status [page 3]

• Increased discussion of corporate social responsibility as a result of human rights issues such as low wages, … , poor working environment, … in the management process of multinational corporations.
• Revision of 「Procurement Business Act」 and addition of an article promoting corporate social responsibility on January 2016
  * Article 3-2 (Encouraging Social Responsibility)
  The administrator of the Public Procurement Service may reflect social and environmental values such as … human rights, labor, employment, … in the procurement process to encourage corporate social responsibility.

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D. Tasks for the Third NAP

Institutionalization of Human Rights Management

2. Establish and implement measures for corporate sustainability management [page 5]

• Reflect ‘respecting human rights·prohibition on discrimination’ ‘work-life balance’ on the criteria of factual survey on corporate sustainability management and reward assessment.

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7. Prevent human rights violations to local workers in Korean companies overseas [page 6]

• Share major issues and establish a cooperation system with related domestic and foreign institutions.
• Open local briefing session on labor management for Korean companies oversea and domestic briefing session for companies scheduled to go abroad.
• Publish and provide data of labor management country-by-country.