Public Enterprises Remove Age- or Education-Based Hiring Restrictions during NHRC Discrimination Probe
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) launched a probe in response to a December 2003 complaint petitioned by the Society for Research on Discrimination, headed by JO Sun-gyeong, charging that : ？2 public enterprises set age and educational attainment restrictions in hiring new staff, and this is discrimination.？In the course of the NHRC investigation, public enterprises in question have notified the Commission that they have scrapped all or parts of the potentially discriminatory clauses in question.
Nine of the public enterprises eliminated both age and educational attainment restrictions: the Financial Supervisory Service, the Korea Labor Welfare Corporation, the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Korea Institute of Energy Research, the Korea Export Insurance Corporation, the Korea Racing Association, the Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives, the Agriculture Forestry Fisheries Information Service (AFFIS), and the Goyang City Facilities Management Corporation.
Eleven of the public enterprises--the Korea Electric Power Corporation, the Korea Consumer Protection Board, the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, the Human Resourced Development Service of Korea, the Agricultural and Fishery Marketing Corporation, the Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corporation, the Korea National Oil Corporation, Seoul National University Hospital, the Korea District Heating Corporation, the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company, and the Seoul Metropolitan City Facilities Management Corporation--eliminated only the requirements relating to educational attainment, while one public enterprise, the Korean Broadcasting Commission, eliminated age ceilings on hiring (the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation eliminated neither the age nor the educational attainment restriction.)
The NHRC hopes that the public enterprises" move to lift those age and educational attainment ceilings will be a big step forward in removing barriers to hiring and employment. ？nd.
Public Enterprises that have Eliminated Hiring Restrictions on Age and Educational Attainment
Hiring Restriction
Public Enterprises
Eliminated both restrictions based on age as well as on educational attainment
Financial Supervisory Service, Korea Labor Welfare Corporation, Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Korea Export Insurance Corporation, Korea Racing Association, Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives, Agriculture Forestry Fisheries Information Service (AFFIS), Goyang City Facilities Management Corporation
(9 public enterprises)
Eliminated restrictions based on educational attainment only
Korea Electric Power Corporation, Korea Consumer Protection Board, Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, Human Resourced Development Service of Korea, Agricultural and Fishery Marketing Corporation, Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corporation, Korea National Oil Corporation, Seoul National University Hospital, Korea District Heating Corporation, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company, Seoul Metropolitan City Facilities Management Corporation
(11 public enterprises)
Eliminated age ceiling only
Korean Broadcasting Commission
(1 public enterprise)
Retained both hiring restrictions
National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (1 public enterprise)
