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In this way, even if the prime contractor does not have a direct contractual relationship with the subcontractor workers, if they exercise actual control, they will be obliged to respond to collective bargaining.

I am interested in how this ruling will affect the labor-management negotiations of subcontractors and specially hired workers.



Reporter Jae Hee-won reports.



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Last year, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering subcontract workers staged a strike demanding poor wages and improved working conditions.



It was a demand that wage negotiations with the prime contractor be necessary, as the payment made by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), a prime contractor, directly affects the wages of subcontract workers.



However, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) ultimately refused to negotiate.



[Lee Young-ho/Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Headquarters (July of last year): It is not legal for us to negotiate with subcontractors.]



Even if there is no direct labor contract relationship with the prime contractor, subcontract workers or special hired workers work The gist of the ruling is that if you have the control to actually determine the conditions, you are recognized as a 'user'.



The Central Labor Relations Commission also judged that Hyundai Steel and Lotte Global Logistics have an obligation to bargain with subcontract unions for reasons of such practical control early last month.



With the successive decisions of the Central and Labor Commission and court rulings, the labor world expects that in-house subcontractors and specially hired workers will expand the possibility of exercising their bargaining rights against the prime contractor in the future.



[Yoon Ae-rim/Senior Researcher, Seoul National University Law Research Institute: It is a very important and meaningful ruling because it can be applied widely.

Let's enable trade unions to conduct collective bargaining smoothly without going through a lengthy trial process (the purpose is.)]



The amendment to Articles 2 and 3 of the Labor Union Act pending in the National Assembly seeks to recognize the scope of employers and workers more broadly. It contains, but I am interested in whether the water of the discussion that has stopped with this ruling will be opened.



(Video editing: Yunseong Kim)



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