Pursuant to the Labor Relations Act, compulsory employment includes physically disabled people as well as safety and health specialists.

Obligatory employment of health and safety specialists:

• In order to guarantee the health and safety of workers, it is common to employ health and safety specialists, which is also the case in advanced industrialized countries such as in Germany and Japan.
• In advanced industrialized countries the standards for their selection are even stricter and also the fields are more subdivided.
• The Korean government has been continuously liberalizing regulations, and especially in May 1997, the obligatory employment in the field of industrial health was revoked. Also, liberalization took place in other areas such as for expansion of double-posts, common recruitment system (new), reduction of obligatory employment, more exemptions etc.
• The Korean government has been continuously liberalizing regulations, and especially in May 1997, the obligatory employment in the field of industrial health was revoked. Also, liberalization took place in other areas such as for expansion of double-posts, common recruitment system (new), reduction of obligatory employment, more exemptions etc.
• However, the health and safety field

Obligatory employment of disabled people

• The obligatory employment of disabled people is intended to give them the opportunity to participate in society and live an ordinary life through their work.
• This system is based on the idea that the entire community has to take responsibility for employing disabled people. Employment leads to economic autonomy and independence of the disabled, but if this system was left to the free decision of the companies, then many of the disabled would face severe shortages of work opportunities.
• Many advanced industrialized countries are protecting disabled people through this system of obligatory employment, which allows them to live a higher quality of life. This was made possible through the charges levied to the employer, which have to be paid if not employing disabled people. This fund is used as the basic financial source for training, facilities, etc. of the disabled and therefore returned to the employer through direct or indirect means.
• The Korean government will make efforts to lay the foundation for the employment of disabled people through the development of job training, and provide skilled disabled workers to the company. This would lead to an improvement of productivity as well as solve the problem of shortages in the workforce.