Fixed-term workers are usually employed in all types of businesses and sites, and even jobs related to people’s life and safety such as ship or airplane operations are often performed by fixed-term workers.
In this regard, as it is hard for fixed-term workers to actively raise important issues including safety due to concerns about their own job stability such as pressure to renew a contract, some argue that the use of fixed-term workers should be restricted for jobs closely related to people’s life, health, or safety.
This Act aims to ban the use of fixed-term workers for jobs related to people’s life, health, or safety such as jobs by ship’s personnel under the Ship Personnel Act, jobs in railway, urban railway, and air transport, jobs banned from using temporary agency workers under Article 5 of the Act on the Protection, etc., of Temporary Agency Workers, and medical services under the Medical Service Act, deem violating the foregoing to have entered into a non-fixed term employment contract, and subject any violator to up to 2 years in prison or 10 million won in fines.
Furthermore, it also aims to ban the use of fixed-term workers in dusty work conditions under the Act on the Prevention of Pneumoconiosis and Protection, etc., of Workers Suffering from Pneumoconiosis and health care card issuing work under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to protect the life and safety of workers in harmful and dangerous jobs (Articles 4 (3) newly inserted and 21).

Ban the use of fixed-term workers for jobs related to people’s life, health, or safety such as medical service jobs and impose fines for any violation thereof (Articles 4 (3) and 21 newly inserted)