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http://dx.doi.org/10.5345/JKIBC.2020.20.2.163

Improvement Measures of Wage Payment System for Construction Skilled Workers  

Lee, Kun-Hyung (Heerim Architects & Planners Co, Ltd)
Son, Chang-Baek (Department of Architectural Engineering, Semyung University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction / v.20, no.2, 2020 , pp. 163-169 More about this Journal
Abstract
Construction is a typical labor-dependent industry. However, problems related to wage payment, which directly affects the livelihood of workers, have caused other problems in maintaining skilled workers, such as increasing the turnover rate of skilled workers, resulting in a shortage of skilled workers. Against this backdrop, this study was conducted to develop measures to improve the conventional wage payment systems in order to prevent skilled workers from leaving their jobs and to maintain them as workers. It is necessary to make the registration of non-registered small-sized construction companies in Korea mandatory, and to introduce means by which construction companies that hire workers through non-registered agents can be penalized. In addition, the project bank account (PBA) system used in the domestic banking sector can be benchmarked in operating payment systems, an approach that is expected to effectively prevent delayed wage payments in the construction industry.
Keywords
skilled construction worker; wage system; benchmarking; improvement measures;
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