4) Asian Regional Workshop for the ILO Convention Statement from Korea (MAR1995)

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4) Asian Regional Workshop for the ILO Convention Statement from Korea (MAR1995)
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It is needed that ILO agreement like the following statement should to adopted to protect the fundamental human rights for home based workers.


1. In order to protect the basic human rights for home based workers, it is necessary to introduce the 'minimum piece rates system.'
The 'minimum piece rates system' should be decided in this manner. Firstly, home based workers should be able to make living from their earnings. Secondly, they should be paid equally as regular employees in the same field.

1. Long hours of working should be prohibited.
Long hours of working by married women should not be allowed not only for women themselves but also for maternity protection. Their working hours should not exceed working hours of regular employees. In Korea, working hours of home based workers should not be over 7 hours per day.

1. Overdue payments should be checked.
For this, it needs to distribute a special notebook for  home based workers. The notebook will record a processing on commission and terms and conditions of work. A legislative bill is demanded to secure payments of home based workers in case of bankruptcy.  

1. Home based workers' damages caused by a lack of work load as well as irregular work order should be improved.  
To prevent damages from the changes of work order and the urgent time limit for products, employers should give an advance notice to home based workers.

1. A measure to improve bad working conditions should be necessary.
A strong measure is needed to prohibit the commissioned work by home based workers when there is a use of dangerous machines or harmful materials. It should be mandatory to install a ventilation fan or safety device. Moreover, home based workers should be allowed to have a regular health checkups freely and industrial disaster insurance in a certain area of work which contains a high possibility of inducing a disease or industrial disaster.

1. A legislative bill related with home based workers should be introduced to protect their basic rights.
The bill should contain problems of minimum piece rates, overdue payments, lack of work load, irregular work order, and dangerous working conditions. The government and companies should make best efforts to enforce such a bill.  

1. The government's basic policy which requires to regularize
Home based workers are working in worse conditions than
regular factory workers.  Futhermore, most of them want to work at home because simultaneously they can do household  works and childcare. In order to use home based workers as industrial force actively, the government should expand childcare facilities and give financial assistance for educational expenses.
To expand the areas of working field, active vocational training should be implemented.  


Korean Women Workers Associations United

         Lee Young-soon


Korean Women Associations Democracy Sisterhood
        
         Lee Kum-la
        
         Lee Kyung-sook
        
         Chung Kang-ja

1995.3.15.
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