Gyeonggi-do Job Foundation Signs 'Collective Agreement' to Address Low Birthrate and More

Yoon Deok-ryong, CEO of Gyeonggi-do Job Foundation (left), is taking a commemorative photo after signing the labor-management collective agreement on the 30th of last month.

The Gyeonggi-do Job Foundation signed a labor-management collective agreement on the 30th of last month at the foundation's main conference room in Bucheon, aiming to address the low birthrate issue and promote work-family balance.

This collective agreement is one of the tasks under the jointly established ‘2024 Labor-Management Coexistence Promotion Plan’ and aims to lay the groundwork for overcoming the low birthrate by introducing various family-centered systems that guarantee gender-equal childcare. It also focuses on realizing a workplace where employees want to stay from hiring until retirement by ensuring workers’ work-life-rest balance.

The foundation’s sole labor union, the ‘Good Job Labor Union,’ empathized with the national crisis of the low birthrate issue and demanded practical childcare guarantees and family-friendly system establishment for workers. In response, the foundation comprehensively considered the government and Gyeonggi-do’s low birthrate response policies and the foundation’s working conditions to finalize a labor-management agreement.

The main agreements include the expansion and introduction of various systems to guarantee gender-equal childcare. To this end, they will promote ▲ expansion of maternity protection systems and childcare time ▲ strengthening of joint childcare support for men and women ▲ expanded recognition of continuous service periods for childcare leave users ▲ and expansion of child care leave.

Additionally, to foster a family-friendly organizational culture, the agreement includes operating workplace daycare centers, child-accompanying smart work centers, maternity protection spaces, and creating family-friendly spaces. It also covers labor-management cooperation to guarantee workers’ work-life-rest balance by introducing new ‘rookie leap leave’ to encourage long-term service and expanding long-term service leave.

Meanwhile, as a leading institution in overcoming the low birthrate in the province, the foundation is promoting the ‘0.5 & 0.75 Job Project’ to overcome the low birthrate crisis, a key task in the second half of Gyeonggi-do’s 8th public administration term.

Yoon Deok-ryong, CEO of the Gyeonggi-do Job Foundation, evaluated, “The signing of this collective agreement is an important step for the foundation to guarantee employees’ work-life balance and encourage long-term service,” and added, “We hope this becomes a model case for Gyeonggi-do public institutions in addressing the national issue of low birthrate and expands nationwide.”