[In-It] I pushed it into the mold dormitory and "treat it like family"

"I treated like a family, and looked after like a family."

The 2014 Sinan-gun salt farm slave case in which dozens of intellectually disabled people were exploited for over 10 years on an island in Shinan-gun.

The words that the beads of the perpetrators of this incident made to appeal their resentment were repeated afterwards, like dodolyipyo.

I am surprised once again that the reminiscent of medieval slavery took place in Korea in the 21st century, and that the exploitation of the disabled labor force continued after that, but I am most surprised that the protests of the perpetrators are the same.

Considering that'how can I leave this world and my children live in this world?' is the biggest concern of parents with adult developmental disabilities, we can see how unscrupulous the perpetrators' sloganing about the'family' is. have.

However, will we only blame the perpetrators of the abuse of the disabled?

When the family cannot play a role, the state or local government that should play the role in place of the family cannot play the role properly.

In 2014, in a national compensation lawsuit filed by victims of the salt warfare case, the police box police officer, labor inspector at the Labor Administration, and social welfare officials of the local government who had jurisdiction over the place where people with intellectual disabilities were treated like slaves deliberately closed their eyes despite the fact of the abuse. Confirmed.

It wasn't in a movie or a novel, it happened in Korea.

What is the recovery process?

Wouldn't it be the role of the state to receive and return the wages that were not received during the exploited period from the perpetrators, even if the lost years cannot be returned?

However, whether the labor force was exploited for 20 years or 30 years, the court accepts the perpetrator's ``extinction statute'' plea that only 10 years' worth of wages will be returned.

People with disabilities filed a constitutional petition to prevent the court's unreasonable ruling, but the Constitutional Court also turned over its responsibility to the National Assembly on December 23 last year, saying that it was a'legislative resolution problem'.

Receiving this, the National Assembly proposed amendments to the Labor Standards Act twice, but it was thrown into the trash without even exceeding the threshold of the standing committee.

The words spoken by the perpetrators seem to mock us all in a situation where the state ministries and the Constitutional Court, which are in charge of three powers such as legislative, administrative, and judicial, are not able to play their roles properly.

Last year, I heard this again.

It was not a case of abuse of persons with disabilities.

This time he was a migrant worker.

'Industrial Accident Death in Migrant Workers' Dormitory'.

On December 20, last year, the farm owner who hired Sok Heng, a Cambodian migrant worker who died in a farm dormitory in Pocheon, visited the dormitory where the incident occurred on the 12th, "Contrary to the media reports, he I was treated like a family and looked after like a family.”

Already after the death of Sok Heng, it was confirmed through a field investigation conducted by the Uijeongbu branch of the Ministry of Employment and Labor that the dormitory violated the provisions related to the dormitory set by the Labor Standards Act.

There was also testimony from fellow migrant workers that heating was not working because the electricity supply was not working properly during the continuing cold wave.

However, the dormitory I went to the actual site and checked with my eyes was worse than I had imagined.

I couldn't believe it was a dormitory provided by deducting 130,000 won a month from the monthly salary of 5 migrant workers.

The inside of the dormitory was covered with mold and condensation, and toiletries were scattered on the ground next to the toilet in the cement floor bathroom.

Nevertheless, when the farmer protested that he was unfair and said, "I treated it like a family and cared for it like a family," Rep. Ryu Ho-jeong replied:

"I think my family wouldn't have let me live in a place like this."

However, this, too, is not the only thing to blame the farmers.

It was the government that allowed farmers to provide green house dormitories for a fee while permitting the employment of foreign workers to support poor rural reality.

300 members of the 21st National Assembly, including Rep. Ryu Ho-jeong, who said he was treated like a family, were also unable to come up with special measures to improve the green house dormitory before Sok Heng died.

When Sokheng died, the government came out.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced on January 6 after Sokheng's death that it would prohibit the provision of temporary buildings in green houses as dormitories.

However, for temporary buildings'outside' of green houses, he said he would judge whether or not to allow dormitories through field investigation.

Less than a week later, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Construction Act, announced that it is not appropriate to use temporary buildings for residential purposes such as dormitories for migrant workers, but the Ministry of Employment and Labor is still silent.

The dormitory is a multi-use facility and can only be granted if it meets the requirements of the building law.

It is common sense that the building used as a dormitory must be at least a building licensed as a residential facility.

However, even after Sokheng's death, the dormitory of 200,000 migrant workers who entered Korea with a visa that allowed them to work legally has to rely only on site inspections by officials of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, not under the construction law.

If it doesn't change, we'll hear this story from another migrant worker's employer.

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