KATHMANDU: South Korea has presented a proposal through the Ministry of Labor in the parliament for making amendments of some points in the existing regulations in preparation for revising the Employment Permit System (EPS) laws.
As per the proposed laws, any worker who has changed the place of work can get re-employment in Korea as a ‘committed’ worker.
For this, the law requires that the worker changing his place of work, however, has to work in the same sector that he/she was working before.
The worker is also required to meet the language and work skills and should have worked in another company for at least one year.
The rule, currently, is such that if a worker changes the place of work the worker cannot come as a ‘committed’ labor once that person returns home country with the expiry of visa term of four years and 10 months.
Likewise, preparations are also on to change the law allowing a worker changing the place of work owing to sexual harassment to return as a ‘committed’ worker again at the recommendation of the related body even if one year term in another company is not completed.
The amendment to this law will now allow the worker to return to work again as committed worker in one month as against the current provision allowing the person to return only after three months.
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