Seoul. South Korea is preparing EPS law amendments and has submitted some changes in the current rules to the Parliament through the Ministry of Labor. According to the new rules, workers who have changed their workplace can seek re-employment easily as “committed” workers. They can do this if they work for at least one year in the same sector that they left, while also maintaining their fluency of the Korean language and the skills necessary for their work.

Till date, the standard rule in South Korea has maintained that in the case of a person changing their workplace without reasons previously specified by the company, she or he will not be able to come back as a “committed” worker when they return home after their visa has expired. The law is prepared to accommodate amendments for allowing workers who changed their workplace due to sexual harassment return to another institution as “committed” workers on the recommendation of the concerned body.

Similarly, after working in the same company for four years and 10 months, the law has been amended to allow the current workers to return to the same company in a month as opposed to the previous provision of 3 months. Uday Rai, President of the Migrant Workers’ Union, expressed that all migrant workers needed to unite to make a law that would allow them to change their workplace unconditionally in the coming days.