The current Act aims to protect the rights of job seekers by ensuring a minimum level of fairness in the course of hiring.

However, hiring advertisements placed by some job offerers do not specifically list detailed conditions of hiring such as the duties required to perform the jobs being filled and work hours that job seekers must know, but only provide minimal information and a vague description of the job’s duties. In particular, job offerers do not provide information on wages to even successful applicants whose hiring has been confirmed, prior to signing of an employment contract, infringing on the rights and interests of job seekers. 

A survey by a private recruitment portal found that due to the asymmetry of job market information, 72.8% of the newly employed who are in their first year were preparing to leave for other workplaces due to being unsatisfied with their tasks, the amount of annual salary, and other factors of discontent.

Hence, this Amendment aims to obligate job offerers to provide specific working conditions prescribed under Presidential Decree, including specific delineation of tasks in the job being hired for, wages, work hours, and the use of maternity leave and parental leave when they place hiring advertisements for new employees. Violators of this amendment are subject to an administrative fine of up to 3 million won, thereby protecting the rights of job seekers and ensuring fairness in the process of recruitment (Article 4-2 newly inserted).

Make it mandatory for job offerers to clearly provide working conditions prescribed under Presidential Decree such as tasks to be hired for, wages, work hours and the availability and use of maternity leave and parental leave when placing hiring advertisement to recruit new employees, with violators of this being subject to an administrative fine of up to 3 million won (Article 4-2 newly inserted).