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초록

Employee issues shall start with distinguishing two categories. One is the reclassification issue or misclassification one. Here the misclassification means the difference between substance and form of the work contract, where making a contractor as self-employed but substantially hiring and using as an employee. The reclassification is to compel the self-employed contract to employment contract in right way of law, that is to coerce the contract form be consistent with the substance of working relationship by the law. The other is the enlargement of the subject and the range in labor law, or the enlargement of the concept of employee in order to expand coverage of labor law. In other words, it is the inclusion of some self-employed into the scope of employee under labor legislations. Over the past twenty years, employee issues have been focused on the misclassification issue. Domestically, special forms of workers similar to wage employees(‘tukgo’) have been the main labour issue. Many academic and practical proposals have been put forth in order to cover dependent self-employed under labor law. Meaningful progress has been made in case law, but little in the field of legislation. It is the same situation inside or outside of the country that the improvements concerning this issue were unsatisfactory as considered the time and quantity of the discussion. This article relatively highlights on the enlargement of the employee concept through inclusive approach. This is largely based on the thoughts that the protection of the labour law shall contribute to the national economy and alleviation of the social inequality, by expanding the labour law to the vulnerable self-employed as well. The inclusive approach mainly concentrates on ‘self-employed similarly working as wage employee’. To cover those dependent self-employed under the labour law, we need some improvement in both the legislation and the construction of case law.

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