비정규직법 시행 이후 기업의 대응방식과 성 차별적 관행

The number of Workers having irregular job has increased very rapidly as Korean society experience a financial crisis under the ruling of IMF and corporations start to take strategies of labor flexibility. As the result, Korean government decided to enact a 'Law related to Irregular Work' and enforced the law in July of 2007. The major contents of the law are to limit the use of the irregular labor up to two years and to prohibit discrimination against the irregular workers when they preform similar type of work with the regular workers. Since the enforcement of the law, Corporations have taken various actions such as subcontract, new contract for less than two years, limitless contract with less payment, sharp division between regular work and irregular work, and so forth. This paper focuses on the ways how corporations confront the law based on the gender differences. It is still quite common to find gender discrimination in the practices of Korean corporations. Corporations tend to regularize jobs for men, while they subcontract with other organizations or have limitless contract for women's work. When corporations change the irregular work to limitless contract for men, they choose differential methods of recruiting new women workers for every two years. Even when they change irregular labor to limitless contract, they share more portions to men than women. Even when corporations claim that they made the decision based on the tasks, not by gender, the changes result in worse working conditions for women than men. Therefore, we conclude that decisions belong to the category of indirect discriminations by gender.