1. Main Objectives
1) To ensure that all protection measures guaranteed by the Constitution be observed for the enhancement of the basic rights and lives of women workers.
2) To guarantee the rights of women who could not actively assert their rights through counseling and through the use of legal and administrative protective mechanisms and contribute to the awareness enhancement of women workers.
3) Campaigning the government for the strengthening of administrative supervision and policy implementation for the protection of irregular workers.
2. Projects
1) Counseling projects
* Operation of counseling counters by KWWAU including headquarter and eight branches and
by Korean Women's Trade Union (KWTU) including headquarter and nine regional branches
* Workshops (once a month at headquarter and branches) to exchange information on
counseling cases and to prepare measures
* Supporting petitions or law suits to guarantee the legal rights of irregular women workers
* Connecting women to organizations providing legal support and to joint activities
2) Educational publicity campaigns
* Publication and distribution of [This is How I Protect My Rights]
* National Campaigns (once or twice a month, headquarter and branches)
* Publication of [This is How I found My Rights] by Headquarter
3) Policy Projects
* Public debates to achieve the basic rights of irregular workers
① Workshop by experts on legal structural reform for irregular workers
(once a month)
② To achieve the basic rights of subcontract women workers
③ Real situation of women workers and measures needed to realize their basic rights
④ Structural measures to eliminate gender discrimination
⑤ Research on the working and living conditions of women workers
⑥ Activities related to the minimum wage system
⑦ Debate on the reality of work accidents faced by golf caddies and application of
work accident insurance
* Submitting policy proposals to the government administrative bodies, National Assembly and political parties to achieve the basic rights of irregular women workers
* Requesting administrative supervision
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