국내 외국인 계절근로자 제도의 문제와 개선 방향 = Problems of the Seasonal Worker System in Korea and the Direction of Improvement

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

(Purpose) To increase the effectiveness of the system by considering the operation status of the direct employment seasonal worker system and the indirect employment public employment seasonal worker system used in the agricultural sector, and to prevent the system from reversing in unexpected directions by checking the predicted problems.
(Research methods) To suggest the problems and directions for improvement of the domestic seasonal worker system, policies were outlined, and the current seasonal worker system was analyzed in various ways to explore the possibility of policies beneficial to the agricultural sector in the future.
(Findings) First, the foreign seasonal worker system is an important manpower supply and demand policy in the agricultural industry. Second, broker intervention in the process of selecting workers by local governments. Third, the public-type seasonal worker system is a system that is advantageous to farmers, such as removing the responsibility of agriculture from chronic problems caused by the employment of migrant workers, such as manpower management and accommodation. Fourth, in the process of operating the public-type seasonal worker system, opinions such as operating private companies, expanding the scope of job allowance, and changing the wage system are presented.
(Conclusion and recommendations) To improve the seasonal worker system, first, public institutions of the sending country and the Korean government or local governments are directly in charge of all tasks, such as transmission to prevent unauthorized departure, and second, the institutions in charge of dispatching must also be public institutions. If consignment is inevitable, the government needs to have a management and supervision system and thorough management and supervision. Third, the right to rest should be secured through the revision of the Labor Standards Act (Article 63), and fourth, it should be expanded to agricultural and population policies, not just labor supply and demand policies.