(1) Reasons for Proposal
As the Act on the Development of Vocational Skills of Workers (Act No.17186, promulgated on March 31, 2020, and to be implemented on October 1, 2020) have been revised, this amendment aims to provide the basis for supporting skill development of training instructors and, at the same time, prescribing details for the implementation of refresher training as the training for training teacher/instructor becomes mandatory; allow the University of Technology and Education to process data containing resident registration numbers and alien registration numbers when it is inevitable to manage the completion history according to the duty cycle of the refresher training; clarify that diagnosis and consultation shall be provided when workers who have been issued accounts for vocational skills development take training courses fit for the accounts; stipulate the contents and procedures of the publication as it becomes possible to publish the list of fraudulent training institutions; mitigate admission requirements for advanced major courses with a degree of a polytechnic college; and otherwise improve and supplement some of the shortcomings that have emerged from the operation of the current system.
(2) Major Provisions
A. As the Act has been revised to provide vocational skill development diagnosis and consultation to the applicant who is issued an account for vocational skill development when the account is issued, it is necessary to improve and reflect related provisions to provide diagnosis and consultation (Article 16 revised).
B. As refresher training for training teacher/instructor becomes mandatory, it is necessary to expand persons subject to skill development to training instructors and prepare details such as the period, time, and field of refresher training, the protection of persons subject to participating in refresher training, and the review and evaluation of the results of the completion of refresher training (Article 29 revised, Article 29-2 newly inserted).
C. Mitigate the admission requirements for advanced major courses with a degree of a polytechnic college so that employed workers immediately after graduation with a strong will to continue education may have more advanced job competitiveness, and ease the condition of work experience in industrial enterprises so that workers who enter the graduation year may enter the advanced major courses for the next year (Article 39-3 (1) 3 and 4 newly inserted).
D. As it becomes possible to publish the list of fraudulent training institutions, it is necessary to provide the necessary details such as the contents, methods, and procedures of the publication (Article 50-2, Article 50-3, Article 50-4, Article 50-5, attached Form No. 1 newly inserted, and Article 52-4 revised).
E. Establish provisions to allow the processing of unique identification information of office work related to the operation of refresher education for the University of Technology and Education to manage the completion history of refresher training according to the duty cycle (Article 52-2 (3) newly inserted).
F. Specifically stipulate “the case that the gravity of violations is minor,” which is the reason for reduction decided by general criteria in the criteria for reducing sanctions for designated vocational training establishments (attached Table 1).
