비정규 근로에 따른 쟁점과 정책과제에 관한 연구

A Irregular work is typically characterized by low wage, lack of fringe benefits like social insurance, and unstable employment conditions. It has been argued that such problems concerning Irregular work should be rectified as they are of typical discrimination in defiance of the principle of "same wage for same work". There are merits, though, that Irregular work provides for employers including, for instance, employment at low cost as well as flexibility in employment depending on economic cycles on the one hand and, on the other hand, for employees including flexible access to work with little limit of space and time. In spite of such advantages, negative aspects of the system have been spot lighted recently in the wake of rapidly increasing joblessness and decreasing demand for labor, which turns out to the advantage of employers, leaving laborers no option but to take part-time jobs compulsorily. With this in background, Irregular work has become a critical social issue in the midst of self-assertive claims by the interest groups from disagreeing standpoints while the government supposed to stand a mediator is at a loss without knowing where to lead the policy. This paper, thus, aims to lay a foundation to solve these issues by pointing to direction to minimize conflicts between management and labor and by suggesting ideas to make labor market more flexible.