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| ▲ On the afternoon of the afternoon of the 31st, the families of the victims of industrial accidents are holding a press conference calling for 2,400 people who died while working on the stairs of the Sejong Center in Jongno-gu, Seoul to enact a proper serious disaster law, prohibit dismissal, and reinstate Kim Jin-suk. | |
| Ⓒ Lee Hee-hoon |
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‘Proper method of punishment for seriously injured companies by the families affected by industrial accidents’
This is the title of a press conference held on the morning of the morning of the 5th in front of the fasting agricultural growth calling for the enactment of the severe disaster corporate punishment law in front of the main gate of the National Assembly Building in Yeouido, Seoul. Kim Seon-yang, the father of the late Kim Jae-soon, who died last May after being sucked into a machine during a shredder inspection while working at a household waste disposal company located in Gwangju Metropolitan City, attended the event.
Mr. Kim Seonyang said, “Is it okay for workplaces with fewer than 50 workers to continue dying as they do today for the next four years. Smaller workplaces have more lax safety devices and many dangerous places. This was the same place in Chosun Wood where Jae-soon worked. If the legal use of the workplace is to be suspended for four years, send the child of a lawmaker to a dangerous place and then process the bill.”
According to Kim, the late Kim Jae-soon’s work is classified as a high-risk job, and has to work in groups of two. However, the business owner did not adhere to the relevant information for reasons of reducing labor costs. In 2014, a worker in her 60s died at the same site for the same reason, and then Jae-soon died after suffering the same incident. Even after the first accident, the employer did not take special safety equipment and safe work measures.
Jae-soon’s father, Kim Seon-yang, said, “Even if a person dies, Jae-soon is dead because he does the same work without any measures. The business owner is only worried about the damage to his business. Business owners who keep killing by neglecting risk are not subject to any punishment. It doesn’t change. Only by punishing business owners can the environment in which people die can change,” he appealed. The prosecution indicted Park, the company’s representative, on charges of violating the Occupational Safety and Health Act in August.
On this day, Jae-soon’s father and the family members of the victims of industrial accidents said, “We need a proper severe accident corporate punishment law that can save people.” ▲ Punishment from terminal manager worker punishment to management manager ▲ Lower-limit criminal punishment from fines treated as corporate expenses Introduction ▲Introduction of punishment by the ordering party, which is forced to shorten the period of time with the original government in the punishment of small subcontractors ▲Introduction of punitive damage compensation ▲Introduction of punishment for officers in charge of public officials such as illegal permits ▲Introduction of causal relationship estimates for repetitive accidents and accidents concealment ▲Occupational diseases, systematic workplace harassment, 50 people “A bill including the Severe Disaster Act without blind spots such as less than one workplace should be passed.”
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| ▲ In the afternoon of the 5th, Chairman Paik Hye-ryeon, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s Legislative Review Subcommittee, is admitted while the Justice Party’s representative Kang Eun-mi and lawmakers are picking in front of the conference room where the National Assembly Legislative Judicial Committee’s Legislative Review 1st Subcommittee will be held. | |
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Earlier, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups submitted an amendment to the Severe Accident Act to the National Assembly on the 4th, prior to the examination by the Legislative and Judicial Committee of the National Assembly.
At the end of December, the government submitted an amendment to the National Assembly, stating that’workplaces with less than 50 employees will be suspended for 4 years, and businesses with less than 50 to 99 employees will be suspended for two years’. In the government draft submitted at the time, the provision of’safety obligations to construction project owners’ was deleted, saying,’It is excessive to bear safety and health obligations only by ordering.’
In addition, when a worker dies due to a violation of safety and health measures and the level of punishment for the employer and the manager, the original bill of the National Assembly stating that the employer or the manager will be sentenced to a prison sentence of two years or more or a fine of 500 million won or more is imprisoned for more than two years. Or the content was changed to a fine of 50 million won or more and 1 billion won or less.
The’causal relationship estimate’, which is related to deaths like Jae-soon, has also been deleted from the government draft. In the original proposal, it is assumed that a major industrial accident has occurred when the fact that the employer or the manager in charge of violating the obligation to take safety and health measures has been confirmed three or more times, and when it is confirmed that the cause of the accident has interfered with investigation, factual investigation, investigation, etc. It was stated that it should be done.
However, the Korea Employers Federation said on the 5th that even this is “a bill that adds an enormous burden that is difficult to bear on corporate management and industrial site management,” and that “we should take more time and carefully review it so that a reasonable law is enacted.” Submitted to. In addition, he also demanded that “the lower limit of fines should be deleted and the upper limit of fines should be reviewed” for the contents of imposing fines when a death accident occurs.
In the midst of this, the first subcommittee of the Legislative Judicial Committee of the National Assembly, which is reviewing the enactment of the Severe Accident Corporate Penalty Act, agreed on the afternoon of the 5th to set the punishment level of the management manager in case of an industrial accident death to be “one year in prison or less than 1 billion won ‘ The lower limit of imprisonment was lowered from two to one year, and the lower limit of fines was removed.
Proper legislation can prevent the second Kim Yong-gyun
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| ▲ On the afternoon of the afternoon of the 31st, the families of the victims of industrial accidents are holding a press conference calling for 2,400 people who died while working on the stairs of the Sejong Center in Jongno-gu, Seoul to enact a proper serious disaster law, prohibit dismissal, and reinstate Kim Jin-suk. | |
| Ⓒ Lee Hee-hoon |
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In front of the National Assembly on the afternoon of the 5th, the KCTU and the KCTU held an emergency press conference for the enactment of the Complete Severe Accident Corporate Punishment Act.
The two trade unions said, “After the death of the late Kim Yong-gyun worker, we have been struggling at the workplace, hoping that Kim Yong-gyun will no longer come out, but accident deaths in 2020 have increased from the previous year.” He emphasized with one voice that the government must provide essential support for safety and health measures for workplaces less than persons.
According to the National Statistical Office’s National Business Survey at the end of 2018, it was confirmed that out of the 4.1 million 3172 businesses nationwide, there were 4.52,967 business sites with less than 50 employees, accounting for 98.8%. Even when limited to workplaces with fewer than 100 employees, it amounts to 99.56%.
This is the reason why 84.9% of serious accidents occurred at workplaces with less than 50 employees, based on the status of serious accidents and accidents by workplace size from January to September 2020. If it was extended to less than 100 people, it recorded 88.6%.
In the case of limiting to the construction industry with the most industrial accidents, according to the results of an analysis of the accident investigation conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Agency from July to November 2020,’workplaces with fewer than 50 employees’ out of 141 accident deaths in the construction industry during the period. There were 121 disasters, accounting for 85.8% of the total. On the other hand, only 20, or 14.2%, of disaster deaths occurred in’workplaces with 50 or more employees’. According to data from the Statistics Korea in 2018, out of the total 75,421 companies in the construction industry, there were 7,428 companies, or 93.3%, with fewer than 50 employees.
The late Kim Yong-gyun special labor pre-investigation committee implementation inspection team submitted to the National Assembly on the 4th, in the’Opinion for the Enactment of a Correctly Severe Accident Act’, “If a probation for enforcement of workplaces with less than 50 employees is applied, 98.8% of all businesses and only construction companies are limited. This is the reason for criticizing that 93.3% of cases are deferred from the application of the Severe Disaster Law. “If businesses with less than 50 employees are excluded, there is a Severe Disaster Law, but it is reduced to one mana law.”
In the opinion, the committee pointed out, “In the case of large companies, they already use contracts and services to distribute operations to a scale of around 50 people,” and pointed out that “deferring the application of workplaces with fewer than 50 employees will result in the delay of the responsibility of large companies again.” did. At the same time, the committee added, “Even when Kim Yong-gyun died, about half of the primary suppliers of the five power plants were companies with fewer than 50 without exception.”
According to government statistics, it was confirmed that in 2020, 2142 people died in 2019, 2142 people in 2018, and 1957 people died in industrial accidents in 2017. The number of workers killed by accidents and diseases by September this year was surveyed to be 1571.
Meanwhile, the opposition parties agreed to deal with the corporate punishment law at a plenary meeting on the 8th.
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| ▲ Democratic Party leader Kim Tae-nyeon and People’s Power Joo Ho-young, together with the Democratic Party, greet after meeting at the National Assembly’s meeting with the Democratic Party on the 5th. Representatives of the ruling and opposition parties held a plenary meeting on the 7th and agreed to deal with major public welfare bills such as the Severe Disaster Act and the Life Logistics Act on the 8th. | |
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