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COPYRIGHT 2006 Asia Pulse Pty Ltd
SEOUL, Feb 28 Asia Pulse - The passage of a non-regular workers bill by a South Korean parliamentary committee is drawing fire from local labor and management and fueling concerns over a nationwide strike feared to hurt economic growth, labor sources said Tuesday.
The proposal approved on Monday by the parliamentary committee on environment and labor is aimed at allowing companies to hire workers more freely, while setting guidelines to prevent discrimination between regular and non-regular workers in terms of pay, social security and medical insurance benefits.
If the bill becomes law next month, companies will also be obliged to treat non-regular workers they have hired for more than two years as regular workers.
It is expected to go into effect in stages starting in 2007 at companies and plants that have...
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