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Institutional Review on Help Program for Overdue Wage

  • DONG-A LAW REVIEW
  • 2011, (53), pp.659-685
  • Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law

노병호 1 Shin, Hyun-Gu 1

1충북대학교

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ABSTRACT

Almost workers in Korea live on their salary for their labor, in other words, wage according to the Labor Standards Act. Wage is worker's only way to secure its survival. Therefore, wage is the vital target of the Labor Standards Act which regulates minimum working conditions as well as the biggest matter of concern in labor movements. Even if there are strategies to protect wage, base of worker's survival, report of overdue wage is increasing every year, and the government announces aid programs to deal with wage unpaid strongly and to solve it as soon as possible every holidays, but overdue wage due to deterioration of economy and vicious enterprisers does not decrease. Furthermore, workers oneself are not protected owing to ignorance of legal measures and economic pain. Accordingly, the study aims to investigate the current relif policies for overdue wage and the status of handling wage unpaid reported at labor authorities and to examine swift and effective remedies and help program through other policies. To achieve this, the status of wage unpaid and the current relief policies are searched, then problems and reformation of the relief policies are looked into in order to seek reasonable solution of overdue wage.

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