Gyeonggi Province will conduct a total of 500 sessions of "Outreach Labor Rights Education" from May to October in order to protect youth labor rights and strengthen their awareness of their rights.
In February, Gyeonggi Province conducted a demand survey targeting high schools and youth-related institutions in the province. Based on the results, students at specialized high schools and Meister high schools, who have a high rate of labor participation, as well as out-of-school youth, were selected as priority recipients for support.
The education will be conducted by 167 labor rights instructors selected through the Gyeonggi Lifelong Education Promotion Agency. After selecting the instructors in March, Gyeonggi Province provided them with online pre-training. In order to enhance the consistency and effectiveness of the on-site education, the province will use three types of standard lesson plans, as it did last year.
Gyeonggi Province is conducting outreach labor rights education for youth. Photo by Gyeonggi Province
The curriculum consists of basic part-time job knowledge that youth should know, how to respond to situations such as wage arrears or unfair dismissal, and the introduction of real-life cases. To improve the quality of the education, Gyeonggi Province plans to conduct monitoring of the educational operations and evaluations of the instructors from July to October.
Hong Seongdeok, Director of Lifelong Education at Gyeonggi Province, said, "Through this education, we hope that young people will gain a correct understanding of their labor rights. We will actively work to eliminate blind spots in labor rights education so that all youth in the province can enjoy equal rights."
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