“I told you to close and I closed it”… Self-employed organizations urge retrospective application of loss compensation

Input 2021.03.09 15:41

They argued that the government should retroactively compensate for the economic damages that self-employed organizations have suffered due to the prohibition of gatherings.

On the 9th, members of the National Self-Employed Emergency Countermeasure Committee for Corona Response consisting of 17 self-employed organizations and members of the Justice Party of Justice Shim Sang-jeong and Bae Jin-gyo held a’self-employed group meeting such as retrospective application of loss compensation for correct corona disaster compensation’ in a party room in Mapo-gu, Seoul, and announced as such. .

Heo Seok-joon, co-chair of the National Association of Franchise Owners, said, “We followed the administrative order of the government with our best efforts. We are not asking for compensation for losses to fill the stomach, but asking for room to overcome the difficult part.”

Gyeonggi-seok, chairman of the National Coin Singing Practice Center Association, said, “Because the country asked to close, I faithfully kept bloody tears and followed them well.”

On this day, the Justice Party promised to work together to legislate retrospectively for loss compensation. Rep. Shim said, “This system is essential to ensure sustainable quarantine even in the situation of repeated infectious disease disasters in the future,” and “The Justice Party will be sure to implement the principle of retrospective application of loss compensation.”

Since the beginning of this year, the government and politicians have been discussing ways to institutionalize the loss compensation system according to the coronavirus outbreak. The Justice Party insisted on retroactive application of the damage, but Prime Minister Chung Sye-gyun drew a line saying, “It is not intended to be retroactively applied.”