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It will be 50 years after the late Tae-il Jeon burned himself and shouted for labor rights guarantees.

A lot of time has passed since the days when workers collapsed in a narrow attic factory where there was no sunlight. How different has the working environment been?

Although 50 years have passed, there are still many people who are not subject to the Labor Standards Act.



Reporter Jeong Seong-jin delivers.



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is what the stylists who are in charge of the celebrity's fancy clothes and the fashion assistants who help them talk about the labor scene.



[Fashion Assistant: We haven't been able to go home for a week, so our minimum hourly wage is around 3,000 won.] We



work for 12 hours every day, but we have five days off during the month, and the average monthly salary is less than 1 million won.



Although it is a definite worker hired directly by a stylist, the Labor Standards Act, which guarantees the rights of workers, is far too far.



[Fashion Assistant: I think it's no different from that of Dongdaemun Cheonggyecheon'Sida' (assistant worker) at the time when Taeil Jeon was in the labor movement.] The



reason lies within the Labor Standards Act.



Article 11 of the Act restricts the scope of application to workplaces employing 5 or more regular workers.



If there are fewer than five people, unlimited work is possible without any restrictions on working hours and no legitimate compensation for night and holiday work.



You cannot complain of bullying in the workplace, and it is easy to get fired.



[Park Wan-kyu/Jehwa Worker: We do not have a fixed salary.

It is very regrettable and heartbreaking that you cannot enjoy benefits because you cannot be incorporated into the system.]



21 years ago, because of the poor reality of small businesses and the limit of the government's ability to supervise, Article 11 of the Labor Standards Act was declared constitutional.



Today, however, this provision is also misused to discriminate against small business workers.



[Lee Chang-geun / Research Fellow at the Institute of Democratic Labor: It is a contradictory reality that these (workers in small workplaces) are continuously excluded from the government's countermeasures.]



National institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission and the Ministry of Legislation have also recommended amendments to the laws.



Workers are asking if discrimination in working conditions can be justified based on the number of workers in the workplace.



(Video coverage: Jang Woon-seok, Kang Dong-cheol, Park Hyun-cheol, Video editing: Yumira)