Gyeonggi Province Completes Conversion of 577 Non-Regular Workers to Regular Status ... Subordinate Public Institutions by First Half of Year

As Gyeonggi Province pushes ahead with converting non-regular workers to regular status in the public sector, it completed the conversion of 267 non-regular workers under Gyeonggi Province on January 1st. The province plans to convert 697 non-regular workers employed at seven subordinate public institutions including the Gyeonggi Economic Science & Technology Promotion Agency to regular status by the first half of this year.

According to Gyeonggi Province on the 3rd, the province has been proceeding with conversion work for 1,835 non-regular workers employed at Gyeonggi Province and 22 subordinate public institutions in accordance with the government's guidelines for regularizing non-regular public sector workers.

As of the government announcement in July 2017, Gyeonggi Province had 1,064 non-regular workers and 22 subordinate public institutions had 2,252 non-regular workers, for a total of 3,316 workers, of which 577 from the province and 1,258 from public institutions were subject to regularization.

Gyeonggi Province converted 310 fixed-term workers to regular status on January 1st of last year, and completed direct hiring work for 267 dispatch and outsourced workers as of the 1st of this month.

Accordingly, the province has completed the regularization of fixed-term workers and dispatch and outsourced workers for which the government provided guidelines, and plans to additionally pursue regularization for workers on private contracts as soon as the government provides guidelines for such arrangements.

The regularization work at subordinate public institutions is currently underway. Of the 22 public institutions employing non-regular workers subject to conversion, the province completed regularization for 145 workers in Phase 1 at five institutions including Gyeonggi Metro Corporation, and for 234 workers in Phase 2 at nine institutions including Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation.

The regularization work scheduled for the first half of this year involves the remaining seven institutions: 17 from Gyeonggi Metro Corporation, 57 from Gyeonggi Research Institute, 263 from Gyeonggi Economic Science & Technology Promotion Agency, 7 from World Cup Stadium Management Foundation, 254 from Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center, 22 from Gyeonggi Family and Women Research Institute, and 77 from Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, for a total of 697 workers. Among them, 466 are fixed-term workers and 231 are dispatch and outsourced workers. For KINTEX, since the dispatch contract is scheduled to end in June of next year, 182 workers are expected to be converted to regular status at the time of contract termination.

Meanwhile, Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung promised on the 2nd to convert 66 call center counselors to regular status. These workers are employed by private contract organizations and their regularization status has been uncertain as government guidelines have not yet been released.

Following the governor's directive, Gyeonggi Province plans to pursue regularization for these workers, and will establish detailed measures and proceed with the conversion work as soon as government guidelines for regularizing non-regular workers employed by private contract organizations are released early in the year.

In this regard, Governor Lee Jae-myung promised in his New Year's address on the 1st to "take another step toward a society that respects labor by establishing the Gyeonggi Province Labor Rights Center, implementing the Worker Health Management Program, and converting non-regular workers at public institutions to regular status," pledging to pursue pro-labor policies this year.