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97694
Thu, 12/31/2009 - 22:54
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Parliament set to vote on labor reform bills Friday: official
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Yonhap) -- National Assembly Speaker Kim Hyung-o plans to invoke
his power to put disputed revisions of the labor reform law to vote at a
parliamentary plenary session slated for early Friday morning, Kim's spokesman
said Thursday.
The revisions call for enforcing the ban on wages for full-time union
representatives in July 2010 and delaying the introduction of a multiple union
system until July 2011.
Without parliamentary approval of the legal revisions, the two disputed new union
rules were to take effect at the beginning of the new year.
Hur Yong-bom, spokesman for the parliamentary speaker, said the Assembly was to
hold a plenary session early Friday morning to vote on the revisions of the labor
reform law, which will be unilaterally tabled by Kim due to the rival parties'
failure to reach a compromise.
"Speaker Kim has demanded that parliamentary deliberations on all bills related
to the labor law revisions and the government's 2010 budget be completed before
0:30 a.m. Friday," said Hur.
The move came after the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) earlier Thursday
railroaded the government's 2010 budget bill through parliament in the absence of
lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP).
The budget bill totaling 292.8 trillion won (US$252.6 billion) passed the plenary
session by 174 votes to two with one abstention, with only lawmakers of the GNP
and a conservative minor party participating in the vote. DP lawmakers boycotted
the vote, claiming that excessive funding for President Lee Myung-bak's key
policy pledge to revamp the nation's four major rivers would bring an
environmental disaster and fiscal waste.
Rival lawmakers are expected to clash again over the labor bills in Friday's
plenary session.
The labor law revisions passed the Assembly's labor and environment committee
Wednesday after representatives from the government, employers and labor had
engaged in protracted wrangling.
Labor unions and employers' associations asked for further delays in the
introduction of a multiple union system, in particular, warning of confusion at
individual workplaces.
The Lee administration has pushed to allow more than one union in a single
workplace as part of its labor reform. If more than two unions are allowed in a
single company, negotiating power will be given to the largest union under the
revised law.
ycm@yna.co.kr
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his power to put disputed revisions of the labor reform law to vote at a
parliamentary plenary session slated for early Friday morning, Kim's spokesman
said Thursday.
The revisions call for enforcing the ban on wages for full-time union
representatives in July 2010 and delaying the introduction of a multiple union
system until July 2011.
Without parliamentary approval of the legal revisions, the two disputed new union
rules were to take effect at the beginning of the new year.
Hur Yong-bom, spokesman for the parliamentary speaker, said the Assembly was to
hold a plenary session early Friday morning to vote on the revisions of the labor
reform law, which will be unilaterally tabled by Kim due to the rival parties'
failure to reach a compromise.
"Speaker Kim has demanded that parliamentary deliberations on all bills related
to the labor law revisions and the government's 2010 budget be completed before
0:30 a.m. Friday," said Hur.
The move came after the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) earlier Thursday
railroaded the government's 2010 budget bill through parliament in the absence of
lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP).
The budget bill totaling 292.8 trillion won (US$252.6 billion) passed the plenary
session by 174 votes to two with one abstention, with only lawmakers of the GNP
and a conservative minor party participating in the vote. DP lawmakers boycotted
the vote, claiming that excessive funding for President Lee Myung-bak's key
policy pledge to revamp the nation's four major rivers would bring an
environmental disaster and fiscal waste.
Rival lawmakers are expected to clash again over the labor bills in Friday's
plenary session.
The labor law revisions passed the Assembly's labor and environment committee
Wednesday after representatives from the government, employers and labor had
engaged in protracted wrangling.
Labor unions and employers' associations asked for further delays in the
introduction of a multiple union system, in particular, warning of confusion at
individual workplaces.
The Lee administration has pushed to allow more than one union in a single
workplace as part of its labor reform. If more than two unions are allowed in a
single company, negotiating power will be given to the largest union under the
revised law.
ycm@yna.co.kr
(END)
