The demands ofthe 10.29 Day of Care and SupportOrganizing Committee

he demands of

the 10.29  Day of Care and Support

Organizing Committee

 

 

• Social transformation to a care-centered society

1. Shift from a privately-led care system to a public-centered care system for which the state takes responsibility.
2. Establish a universal, life-long, and right-based care system.
3. Establish an individual-based, not family-based, care and welfare system.
4. Abolish the male breadwinner model and introduce the ‘universal caregiver model.’

 

• Establish public accountability in care for which the state takes responsibility.

1. Make care jobs decent jobs to secure enough care labor.
2. Ensure public accountability and transparency by having the state and local governments directly operate social service facilities.
3. Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 (Decent Work for Domestic Workers)."

 

• Revalue care work and improve working conditions

1. Revalue paid and unpaid care work to improve social awareness on care.
2. Improve working conditions.
3. Apply the labor law to all domestic workers by abolishing the Article 11 of the Labor Standards Act, which excludes domestic workers from its application.
4. Ensure migrant care workers’ equal rights.

 

• Guarantee rights to care

1. Guarantee the right to care for all (the right to receive quality care and the right to provide care), and enact a Basic Care Act.
2. Reduce work hours and improve work environment to secure time for care.
3. Ensure gender-equal rights throughout the entire process of pregnancy maintenance and termination, childbirth, and child-rearing.