"Urging Calculation of Time-Selective Recruitment Civil Servants' Quota as Fixed Number"

Press Conference and Video Forum on Demands for Improvement of Part-Time Civil Servant Recruitment System

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] The National Integrated Public Officials Labor Union Time-Choice Division (Integrated Union Time-Choice Division, Head Jeong Seong-hye) held a press conference at 9:30 a.m. on the 28th of last month in front of the National Assembly main gate, urging that time-choice recruited public officials be counted as part of the official staffing quota.

On the same day at 3 p.m., they held an online debate titled "Granting Time-Choice Rights and Eliminating Discrimination" in the Integrated Union's 3rd-floor conference room.

At the press conference, the Integrated Union Time-Choice Division announced demands including ▲ counting time-choice recruited public officials as part of the official staffing quota and guaranteeing basic human rights ▲ ensuring the right to choose working hours up to 35 hours per week without unfair reduction or forced extension ▲ providing one desk and one PC per person ▲ granting holiday leave pay and additional certification bonuses, which are welfare-related allowances, equally to full-time employees ▲ improving the time-choice recruited public official system, which has a 43% turnover rate and no solutions.

At the online debate held in the afternoon, Kim Seong-hee, director of the Industrial Labor Policy Research Institute, who presented the keynote speech, stated in her paper, "After seven years, it has been reconfirmed that the time-choice recruited public official system is not a good job," and argued that "the time-choice public official system is perceived as a discriminatory system, which is due to structural factors."

All discussants commonly agreed that the time-choice system has deteriorated into a bad job and explored various measures such as eliminating discriminatory factors, integrating into full-time positions, and improving treatment.

The online debate was hosted by National Assembly members Kim Min-seok, Park Soo-young, Lee Eun-joo, and Lim Ho-seon, and organized by the Integrated Union Time-Choice Division.

Kim Jong-kwon, director of the Policy Research Institute Eum, served as the chair, and Kim Seong-hee, director of the Industrial Labor Policy Research Institute, participated as the keynote speaker. Discussants included Nam Woo-geun, policy committee member of the Korea Non-Regular Labor Center; Park Young-won, head of the Administrative Safety Team at the National Assembly Legislative Research Office; Park Haeng-yeol, head of Personnel Innovation Planning at the Ministry of Personnel Management; and Choi Jong-yeon, lawyer at the Law Office Work and People.