Park Hong-geun “If you want to receive continuous delivery service, we may discuss’raising delivery cost'”

Participants are taking commemorative photos at the first agreement presentation ceremony of the Social Consensus Organization for Courier Worker Overwork at the Dong-A-Democratic Party People’s Living Conference held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 21st. 2021.1.21/News1 © News1 Reporter Sung Dong-hoon

In addition, Congressman Park Hong-geun, a member of the Democratic Party’s Social Consensus Organization, commented on the possibility of a’raise delivery cost’ as part of a measure to prevent overwork of courier workers.

Rep. Park met with reporters after the Democratic Party People’s Livelihood Conference held at the National Assembly’s main office this morning and said, “If the number of people for classification work increases, the cost for this will inevitably increase.”

At the conference on this day, the social consensus organization composed of the party government, courier workers, and consumer groups announced the ‘1st Agreement on Overworked Death’ to exclude parcel sorting from the scope of the basic work of courier workers, and the courier company employs a dedicated manpower for sorting. Said it would.

Rep. Park said, “If there is a social public opinion,’Isn’t it inevitable to raise the cost of courier a little more than the current in order to receive the courier service continuously, we can discuss it.”

He added, “We need to discuss whether it is inevitable to raise at least some through future research services.”

It is known that there was a discussion inside the party about the extent of the parcel delivery cost increase in this regard.

On the morning of the 11th, courier workers are preparing for delivery at a courier distribution center in Seoul. The bill of enacting the Living Logistics Act, a corporation to prevent overwork of delivery drivers, passed the National Assembly plenary session on the 8th, but there is a concern that the Living Logistics Act will remain as a “half” law due to the fact that the responsibility for sorting is not specified. Attention is drawn to the tea meeting. The Living Logistics Act is a bill initiated by Representative Park Hong-geun and Democratic Party lawmaker Park Hong-geun in June of last year, and introduced a’registration system’ for the parcel service business and a’certification system’ for the package delivery business such as delivery agency and quick service to legally institutionalize the life logistics service business. The original draft contained the content that the classification work was excluded from the scope of the delivery engineer’s work, but it was deleted from the amendment in October of the same year. January 11, 2021/News1 © News1 Reporter Sung Dong-hoon

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