This paper is intended to introduce some legal issues regarding the outsourcing of labor by local governments. The Japanese government has vigorously pursued many national policies concerning outsourcing since the 1980s with a marked trend toward neo-liberalism. With the known financial issues that arrive from outsourcing, local governments need to be cognizant of the legal problems that outsourcing creates when used on public projects from the prospective of both administrative and labor law. Conclusions are as follows: First, outsourcing produces many non-regular workers. When public services are contracted out, the working conditions of these employment contracts, such as worker’s healthcare compensation, generally decrease. Special policies are required to address the needs of the “working poor” in regards to the outsourcing of labor. Second, the outsourcing policy of the central government may come into conflict with the autonomy of the local government. Third, outsourcing creates problems regarding camouflage contracts or an unlawfully dispatched work. Forth, it is important that when the local government contracts out public services, the supervisory responsibility for those services remain inside government jurisdiction. In some cases, a public officer or the local government may need to have a criminal or a civil responsibility for this supervisory duty. Finally, where a local government establishes a company with private capital for the construction or facility management of a public facility, the government generally vouches for damages that come to the private capital side. In this case, an official in the local government may take a civil responsibility for the oversight of this outsourcing.
한국비교노동법학회 [The Korea Society of Comparative Labor Law]
설립연도
1997
분야
사회과학>법학
소개
본 학회는 1997. 4. 1 창립되어 노동법 분야를 주로 연구하는 단체이다. 본 단체는 국내법, 외국의 노동법 노사관계등의 인접학문분야, 국제노동법 등을 연구함으로써 현재 국내적으로 연구가 미진한 분야의 하나인 노동법 분야의 이론적 발전과 재정립. 진보적 이론 창안과 법해석을 통한 사회적 공헌을 그 목적으로 하고 있다.
학회 회의의 자격은 교수, 박사학위 소지자의 자격을 갖춘자를 정회원, 기타의 자를 준회원 또는 특별회원으로 한다. 본학회는 1998년 이후 '노동법 논총'이라는 학술지를 발간하고, 매년 봄(5월)과 가을(9월) 정기학회를 2회이상 개최한다. 학회의 회원은 전국적으로 교수, 공공단체, 연구기관, 공인노무사 및 변호사 등의 전문가로 구성되어 있다.