Rest Granted After All-Night Emergency Duty…Anyang City Guarantees Employees' Right to Rest

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Yoo Je-sung] Anyang City announced on the 19th that it will implement a 'Rest Time Provision After Emergency Duty' system as an initiative to improve the working environment in the civil service.

This comes as emergency duty assignments for employees responding to disasters and disasters have increased due to frequent abnormal weather patterns such as heavy snow and torrential rain. The system was improved to prevent reduced work efficiency that occurs when employees are immediately assigned to general duties after extended overnight shifts, and to guarantee employees' right to rest, based on the Civil Service Work Rules for Local Government Employees.

Accordingly, the core of the Rest Time Provision After Emergency Duty system is to allow employees who work emergency duty between midnight and 8 a.m. during disaster situations to receive a maximum of 4 hours of rest time between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the same day.

Previously, if an employee took annual leave on the same day after early morning emergency duty, the day of annual leave was not recognized as a working day, so employees did not receive overtime compensation for the early morning emergency duty.

Accordingly, the city, based on Article 2-4 of the Civil Service Work Rules for Local Government Employees, grants rest time on the day of early morning emergency duty at the discretion of the local government head to guarantee employees' right to rest.

Park Young-mi, head of the city's General Affairs Division, said, "Since the dedication of employees performing overnight duty at disaster sites is the foundation of stable disaster response, we will ensure adequate rest to enhance work concentration and response capabilities and secure citizen safety."