Korea Customs Service Reaches First Prime-Subcontractor Collective Bargaining Agreement Among Central Government Agencies

The Korea Customs Service has finalized collective bargaining between the primary contractor and the subcontractor's labor union.

This marks the first case of a prime-subcontractor bargaining agreement being reached within a central government agency following the implementation of the revised Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act (known as the Yellow Envelope Act) last March.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor's Jungbu Regional Employment and Labor Administration announced on October 23 that the Korea Customs Service and the Hanmaeum Incheon Airport Union, a branch of subcontractor Samgu Inc.'s labor union, concluded their prime-subcontractor negotiations and held a collective agreement signing ceremony.

The collective agreement signed on this day includes measures to improve working conditions and secure employment for subcontractor workers, such as restructuring the shift system to a four-group, two-shift schedule, reflecting prevailing wage rates in estimated service prices and labor cost calculations, and setting the service contract period at two years.

The restructuring of the shift system will take effect immediately starting on the 1st of next month.

Choi Kwan-byung, head of the Jungbu Regional Employment and Labor Administration, emphasized, "This labor-management agreement is a model case for concluding a prime-subcontractor collective agreement at a central government agency for the first time since the implementation of the revised Trade Union Act," adding, "We will actively support such practices so that they can be shared and spread moving forward."

(Photo provided by Korea Customs Service, Yonhap News)
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