The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced on the 16th that it had approved partial amendments to the Enforcement Decree of the Employment Insurance Act and the Enforcement Decree of the Employment and Industrial Accident Insurance Premium Collection Act at a cabinet meeting. The amendments include extending the payment period for substitute workers for parental leave by up to one month and changing the method to pay the subsidy in full during the substitute worker’s employment period.
Additionally, to promote the reduction of working hours for childcare, the upper limit of the standard amount for calculating the childcare working hours reduction allowance will be increased from 2.2 million won to 2.5 million won for the first 10 hours reduced per week, and from 1.5 million won to 1.6 million won for the remaining reduced working hours. Due to the increase in the minimum wage next year, the lower limit of the job-seeking allowance linked to the minimum wage will be higher than the upper limit, so the upper limit of the daily wage, which is the basis for calculating the job-seeking allowance, will be raised from 110,000 won to 113,500 won.
Accordingly, the upper limit of the job-seeking allowance will also increase from 66,000 won to 68,100 won per day. Additionally, from next year, the recruitment and review of the new 4.5-day workweek support project (Work-Life Balance + 4.5 Project) can be entrusted to the Korea Labor Foundation, which has relevant expertise and networks.
Furthermore, the scope of materials that can be requested from related agencies concerning truck owners (hazardous material transporters) has been expanded.