콘텐츠산업에서 독일의 근로시간저축계좌제 도입가능성에 관한 소고

The recent amendment of the Labor Standards Act, which lowers the maximum hours worked per week to 52, will inevitably have numerous permutations in application depending on the characteristics of different industries and fields. Policies are being implemented to address various needs including elastic working hours and selective working hours, expanding the usage of flexible office hours provided for in the Act. Discussions on this issue, however, center around the characteristics of the manufacturing industry while also considering non-manufacturing industries such as the service industry. On the other hand, the contents industry receives little consideration for its uniqueness despite the characteristics that set it apart from the manufacturing and service industries. Practitioners in the contents industry possess the characteristics of both workers and artists, requiring a different approach in terms of labor policy from most fields of industry, where the workers are purely workers. Other distinguishing factors of the contents industry include the strongly binding subjectivity of the person conducting the work, the difficulty of controlling individual unit productivity by outside means, and the extremely irregular factors that affect working hours. Nevertheless, it is self-evident that the contents industry must adhere to working hours under the Labor Standards Act; this study, therefore, examines the possibility of adopting the German working hours savings accounts (Arebeitszeitkonto) as a policy alternative to successfully establish the new working hours discipline in the contents industry.