Implementation Effect of the Act for Protection of Labor in Mass Dismissal
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Implementation Effect of the Act for Protection of Labor in Mass Dismissal
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News From：Department of Labor Relations
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Date：2007-08-24
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| The Act for Protection of Labor in Mass Dismissal has been implemented effectively since it was enforced on May 7, 2003. Here are some introductory facts: 1. More than 100,000 laborers have been entitled to share the information of mass dismissal. According to the List of Mass Dismissal of Labor made by the labor authority, there were 715 cases of mass dismissal of labor between Jan. 2004 and Aug. 2007; 670 cases notified the Dismissal Program pursuant to this Act ; 107,344 employees were provided with the information on mass dismissal of labor; labor could not receive the information about mass dismissal before the Act was enforced. This situation has been improved. 2. Labor and management reached agreement in eighty percent of the mass dismissal cases through the system of negotiation. In the 670 cases that notified the mass dismissal program pursuant to this Act, a negotiation commission was established in 33 cases with agreement reached in 22 cases, a successful negotiation rate of 67%; in 592 cases, labor and management negotiated and reached agreement on their own, a 100 percent success rate. 88 percent of the employers chose to negotiate the items recorded in the dismissal program, on their own. This indicated that after the notification procedure of the dismissal program, most of them would try their best to negotiate with labor and reach an agreement to avoid the system of government intervention. 3. Prior knowledge of major enterprise events such as shut-outs through the system of alerts and investigation of mass dismissal.) There were 206 alert cases between Jan. 2004 and Aug 2007; 171 cases were investigated by the labor authority to better determine the enterprises’ status. 4. There was an imposed prohibition from going abroad on 8 chairpersons and actual superintendents, to seek solutions for labor with outstanding payment situations. 8 chairpersons and actual superintendents of 6 enterprises were prohibited from going abroad pursuant to this Act. Since prohibition from going abroad involves the rights of citizenship, the labor authority was very careful in reviewing such cases; moreover, as many employees know the regulation of prohibition from going abroad, they would negotiate with employees about the repatriation fees and salaries in shut-outs and mass dismissal of labor to avoid this punishment. . |
- Source:Department of Employment Relations
- Publication Date:2007-08-24
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