NHRC Issues Recommendation to Superintendent to Implement System to Allow Female Teachers their Health Leave and to Principals of 2 Primary Schools to Prevent Recurrence
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) found that the practice of restricting female teachers’ use of health leave by requiring female teachers to fill out a health questionnaire as a precondition to using their leave, berating them as irresponsible when they do use their leave, and allowing female teachers only 1 health leave per semester was behavior violating the right of equality. Thus, with regard to a complaint petitioned against the Seoul Metropolitan City Superintendent of Educational Affairs and the principals of two primary schools, the NHRC acknowledged such conduct as violating the right of equality and issued a recommendation to the superintendent of educational affairs to implement a system facilitating the ability of female teachers to use their health leave. Additionally, the Commission issued recommendations to the principals of the two primary schools in question to prevent recurrence of the principals’ restricting female teachers’ use of health leave.
