Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act amended in December 30 2006. The new law abolished direct arbitration in essential public services and rather allowed strikes in essential public services in a certain condition. This is called ‘essenti...
Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act amended in December 30 2006. The new law abolished direct arbitration in essential public services and rather allowed strikes in essential public services in a certain condition. This is called ‘essential maintenance services’.
Essential maintenance services refers to work that significantly endangers the life and health of the public or the safety of the body or the daily life of the public due to the suspension or abolition of the work, and the details are prescribed in the Enforcement Decree.
In order for strike to be justified in essential public business, the maintenance and operation of essential maintenance services must be observed, and essential public business are prescribed by the Labor Union Act, and essential maintenance services is prescribed by the Enforcement Decree. As a result, labor unions and employers cannot determine the scopes or types of essential maintenance services, but only the minimum level of maintenance and operation, and necessary personnel for essential maintenance services already established in the Enforcement Decree. Looking at the recent case for determining the essential maintenance services of Incheon Airport operation service, the problem of the essential maintenance services system is evident.
In this paper, the essential maintenance services of the air transportation business is reviewed, focusing on the airport business. In addition, the Labor relations commission also summarizes matters to be cautious in determining the level of operation and maintenance of the airport operation service business.