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As one of the ways to overcome the economic crisis, the Korean government is proposing structural reform and regulatory innovation.
It is said that it is possible to boost vitality in the economy and industrial fields without spending any money.
Reporter Jo Yoon-ha will explain the relevant details in detail.
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new labor policy is focused on making the 52-hour workweek flexible.
Currently, the weekly work hours are set to not exceed 52 hours per week, but the plan is to change this to a monthly basis under the labor-management agreement.
This will allow you to work up to 52 hours of overtime in a full month, allowing you to work 70 hours the first week, then 40 hours the following week, and so on.
A maximum of 84 hours per week will be opened.
During his candidacy, the president said that it should be extended to the entire year, saying that companies should work when they need it.
[President Seok-Yeol Yoon (Last January): Maintain 52 hours a week as an average of a year, but increase working hours when you need to work intensively, and decrease it when not...
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By the way, the actual policy is reduced to a monthly basis.
In addition, it was decided to increase the settlement period for the selective working hour system, which is mainly applied to R&D positions, from the current three months to more.
At the same time, we have decided to introduce a working time savings account system that allows the accumulated overtime hours to be used as vacation instead of money.
The government also announced that it will revise the wage system to reduce the so-called high salary system, in which wages increase automatically as people get older.
[Lee Jung-sik/Minister of Employment and Labor: The seniority
wage system is no longer sustainable in the low-growth era and in the labor market with frequent turnover]
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