2016 Comprehensive Plan of Youth Employment

■ Situation of the Youth Job Market

• The real unemployment rate of the youth continues to increase as more young people are giving up finding jobs.
• Violations of labor rights for young employees occur frequently at their part time jobs.
• Lack of useful job information causes difficulties for young people in finding their jobs.

■ Goals

Job policies that can satisfy and be understood by the youth

• Job policies tailored for Seoul’s young citizens
• Job policies that are efficient and realistic
• Job policies that are both high in quality and large in quantity

■ Main Plans

Sharing More Job Information

More support for the youth to find jobs by offering them job information that can help them in practice

Developing Job Cafes Citywide

Opening job cafes using existing facilities in areas with large numbers of youth. Job cafes will provide a number of tools for searching for jobs, including job information and other required services.

• 300 cafés planned to open by 2020
• Furnished with study rooms, desks, shared bookcases, tables for online job search, etc.
• Further services for job finders including suit rental for job interviews, makeup services, photo service for resumes
• Consulting and mentoring for resume writing, interview preparation, and job experience

Offering Integrated Employment Information

Integrated employment information for ubiquitous access to job information

• Integrated Job Portal (Jun. 2016): in cooperation among with the city government, the central government, and the private sector
• Jobs in Seoul Application (the last half in 2016): Update for more need-based service
• Integrated call center for jobs: Carrying on the steps until Jul. 2017

• Night time call center: closing at 10 pm instead of the current 6 pm
• Expanding the role of Seoul Job Welfare Center (the last half in 2016): offering lifelong Job services and other welfare services

Enhance Support for Offering Employment Information

• Job Metro (June 2016 to Oct. 2016): Counseling and job information on the subway
• Job fair for the local industry (11 times a year): Provision of job information at places like specialized high schools or traditional markets
• Job Hackathons (14 times a year): Listening to and practicing the ideas of citizens
  – Start-up sector (May and October), social economy sector (September), youth job sector (October)

Discovering Seoul’s Small Giant Companies and Promoting Their Employment

Creating new youth jobs and introducing the jobs to young job finders by selecting and nurturing “small giant” companies in Seoul

Creating More Jobs for the Youth through Welfare Expansion and Economic Growth

Expanding Public Services

Creating more jobs for young citizens through expanding services and jobs in public areas

Fostering Social Economy Companies

Support and find 1,000 social economy companies related to cooperatives

Promoting Start-ups and Building the Infrastructure

• Support for space, marketing, investment, and other resources for young citizens planning for a start-up through the Challenge 1000 project
• Promoting culture of one person businesses and local brand start-ups by expanding the infrastructure for start-ups

Protect the Rights of the Youth at Part-Time Jobs

Improving social perception on young part timers and setting up a foundation for cooperation between part timers and their employers in order to secure the rights of the young part timers

Opening More Centers for Young Part Timers’ Rights and Further Services

• Opening up to 25 more centers for young part timers’ rights
• Real-time counseling services using the Mobile Message Service KakaoTalk (May. 2016)
• Night time call center (May. 2016)
• Consulting tour (May. 2016) in part-time job congested areas (around universities, specialized high schools, etc.)

Effective Measures for Securing their Rights

• Introduction to certified labor attorneys and agencies for lawsuits
• Public disclosure after investigating sectors where rights are frequently violated (twice a year)
• Assistant dedicated to part-time complaints
• Expansion of Part-time Rights Keepers (100)
  – Monitoring and counselling about unpaid wages and unfair treatment of labor contracts
  – Campaign to secure the rights of young part timers

Intensified Check on the Conditions of Part-time Work Places

Checking the working condition with a focus on part time jobs involving late working hours (Mar.-May 2016)

• Targets: 2,500 late night part time jobs
• Checking of: cases of violation of labor rights including workers’ health, safety during their way back home, Injury insurance, delayed wage.

Enlargement of Mutual Agreement

Establishing mutual relations for cooperation between Seoul and companies engaged in part-time jobs

• Goal: agreement with 20 companies by 2018
• Main Contents: comply with the Bill of Rights for the youth and improve working conditions for protection

Campaign for Securing the Rights of Part Timers

• Targets: Visit locations and PR in part-time job congested areas
• Main Contents: The Bill of Rights for the young workers, standard contracts distribution, education of labor law, etc.

Establishing a Seoul-type Employment Model

Promoting quality of job improvement by building a Seoul-type Employment Model

Turning More Irregular Workers into Regular Workers

Switching to the full-time in the public sector, and then expanding to the private sector

Introduction and Prevalence of Living Wage System

Applying a living wage to the public sector, then gradually expanding to the private sector

Introducing and Increasing Prevalence of a Seoul-style Model of Reduced Working Time

Provide ways to reduce working hours by institutions, then apply the measures based on settlements between labor and management

Policy Implementation for Improving Workers’ Rights

• Survey on Vulnerable WORKERS
  – Twice or three times per year through the Seoul Labor Center
  – Create a Seoul–customized model through developing a policy supporting vulnerable workers
  Trial open of delivery worker’s cafe
• Create a support system for improving workers’ rights in emotional labor
• Launching a protection team for workers
• Preparing more manpower for expanded operations of Ombudsman system for targeted social classes