Gwanak-gu Promotes Projects to Improve Working Conditions and Protect Rights of Vulnerable Workers

Gwanak-gu Selected for '2025 Education and Legal Counseling Support Project for Vulnerable Workers' for Second Consecutive Year
Secured Approximately 22 Million KRW in National Funds, Supplemented by District Funds, to Provide Free Customized Education and Legal Counseling for Vulnerable Workers... Nighttime Consultations Expanded This Year

Gwanak-gu (Mayor Park Jun-hee) has achieved the great feat of being selected for the second consecutive year in the Ministry of Employment and Labor's '2025 Education and Legal Counseling Support Project for Vulnerable Workers' competition.

This project, first implemented last year under the Ministry of Employment and Labor, aims to protect the rights of vulnerable workers in blind spots such as temporary, part-time, and other non-regular workers, as well as employees of small businesses. Gwanak-gu was selected in the project's inaugural year.

Last year, the district provided various labor education programs, including legal counseling related to labor laws such as wage arrears complaints and support for labor attorney fees, as well as explanations of industrial accident laws for school meal workers in elementary, middle, and high schools, receiving great responses from participants.

This year, Gwanak-gu secured approximately 22 million KRW in national funds and added some district funds to expand customized labor education and legal counseling for vulnerable workers such as temporary, part-time, and non-regular workers and employees of small businesses.

The main support includes providing various services such as labor education and industrial accident prevention education for delivery workers, as well as supporting labor attorney fees for workers' rights protection, including document preparation for complaints about wage arrears and applications for relief from unfair disciplinary actions or dismissals.

In particular, the district plans to expand rights protection support by conducting nighttime consultations starting this year for vulnerable workers who find it difficult to visit during weekday working hours.

Those wishing to participate can receive nighttime consultations every Thursday until 9 PM from April to October (excluding the hot summer period) at the Gwanak-gu Labor Welfare Center (located on the 3rd floor of Deokjin Senior Citizens Center, 37 Nambusunhwan-ro 234-gil, Gwanak-gu).

All consultations and education conducted at the Gwanak-gu Labor Welfare Center are free of charge. Those who wish to consult can contact the Gwanak-gu Labor Welfare Center. Consultations are available in person, by phone, or online, with each session lasting about 30 minutes.

Mayor Park Jun-hee said, “Following the selection for the platform workers' workplace improvement support project and the first autonomous improvement support project for working conditions among Seoul's autonomous districts, being consecutively selected for this project to improve the rights of vulnerable workers allows us to provide practical help in improving working environments for workers. We will continue to do our best to protect workers' rights.”