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▍Labor-Management Meetings are an Optimal Communications Channel

1 What is a labor-management meeting?

Labor-management meetings are an internal channel that enables workers to participate in the management decisions made by a company. The establishment of such meetings can help to coordinate labor relations, promote labor-management cooperation and ensure labor disputes are nipped in the bud and do not escalate.

2 Are companies obligated to hold labor-management meetings?

Based on the provisions of the Labor Standards Act and the Regulations for Implementing Labor-Management Meetings, business entities are required to hold labor-management meetings, and if the location is a place of work and employs a total workforce of 30 or more the company is required to hold separate labor-management meetings. The total number of employees referenced above includes workers employed full-time, part time and foreign workers hired by a business entity.

3 Can I serve as a labor representative?

Labor representatives to labor-management meetings must be “elected,” but any worker who is 15 years of age or older has the right to vote and participate in elections for labor representatives. When a business entity holds an election for labor representatives, this must be held in a way that maintains the confidentiality of voters.

4 What guarantees come with being a labor representative?

According to the provisions of Article 12 of the Regulations for Implementing Labor-Management Meetings, employers should give labor representatives official leave to attend meetings. In addition, employers or managers representing employers are not permitted to terminate, transfer, reduce the salary or undertake any other actions detrimental to a labor-management meeting representative for the execution of their responsibilities.

5 How often are labor-management meetings required to be held?

According to the provisions of Article 18 of the Regulations for Implementing Labor-Management Meetings, such meetings must be held a minimum of once every three months, but provisional meetings can also be held as and when necessary.