• Toxicological Research
• /
• 제17권
• /
• pp.185-188
• /
• 2001

Genetically modified foods and food additives are derived from organisms that have been inserted foreign genetic materials by recombinant DNA techniques to improve the quality or any other pur-poses. The problems such as toxicity, allergenicity and antibiotics resistance in the safety of genetically modified foods are usually concerned. In Korea, the safety of foods is ensured by the Food Sanitation Act. Although there is no specific provision regarding the genetically modified foods in it, any foods that might cause negative effect(s) on public health or human life are prohibited to sell in the market. In order to systematically evaluate safety of genetically modified foods, the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) promulgated "Guidelines regarding review of safety assessment data for genetically modified foods and food additives (KFDA Notification 1999-46)". The objectives of these guidelines are to ensure safety of genetically modified foods and food additives. In order to evaluate the safety of genetically modified foods. KFDA operates a special expert committee composed by experts from government, universities, research institutes. and consumer's unions. Recently. manufacturers and consumers are interested in the issues on safety and labeling of genetically modified foods, because of increment of imported genetically modified crops and processed foods. Since government and consumers unions have different viewpoints, their positions regarding the issue are different each other. Therefore, the regulation of labeling on genetically modified foods is prepared and should be enforced at July 2000 in Korea. in Korea.

• 노동경제논집
• /
• 제23권1호
• /
• pp.27-45
• /
• 2000

노사관계 시스템이론을 기초로 하여 노사관계의 유형 또는 질적 수준을 결정하는 요인들을 식별한 결과 외부환경요소와 노동조합 및 사용자의 의식과 전략으로 표현되는 주체요소 그리고 교섭, 협의 참여와 노사 상호채널로 표현되는 과정요소로 구성됨을 발견하였다. 기존 연구를 분석해 본 결과 우리 나라 노사관계의 질적 수준을 결정하는 요인으로 노사 당사자의 의식과 전략이 가장 중요하고 그 다음으로 노사간 대화와 협의 및 성실한 교섭이 중요하며 환경요소는 별로 중요하지 않는 것으로 관찰되었다. 노사관계를 개선하는 실천적 과제로서 노사간 상호신뢰와 존중, 경영정보 공유, 상호 충분한 대화와 협의, 노사공동 작업장혁신, 그리고 산업 업종 단위의 노사협의 채널구축을 제시하고 있다.

• 한국병원경영학회지
• /
• 제4권2호
• /
• pp.131-161
• /
• 1999

This study is to analyze the reason of Breakdown of collective bargaining caused by the difference of main issue about bargaining and other factors influencing collective bargaining from the viewpoint of both labor and capital in Korean medical system. Korean medical system is facing the huge change of medical policy, so it should pursue institutional change following the change of medical system, On the contrary, the activity of labor union in medical system is more organized, activated, so understanding and cooperating on the related policy between labor and management are necessary. As the method of administration participation is collective bargaining, main issues between labor and management may lead Brwakdown of bargaining, so the author will analyze it from three viewpoints. First, the difference of recognition between labor and management due to the characteristics of hospital Secondly, the difference of recognition between labor unions due to the characteristics of hospital Thirdly, the difference of recognition between the characteristics of hospital and labor union.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
• /
• 제6권3호
• /
• pp.113-121
• /
• 2001

인적 서비스의 질은 서비스산업의 경영성과에 영향을 주는 중요한 요인일 뿐만 아니라 조직체의 존속, 성장, 발전에 절대적 영향을 미치므로, 이에 대한 심층적 연구의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 특히, 신용협동조합의 경우 직원의 대 조합원 서비스의 질은 현재와 같이 어려운 환경 하에서는 조직의 존속과 성장에 더욱 중요한 요소가 되고 있다. 그러므로, 본 연구는 신용협동조합 직원의 인적 서비스의 질에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 중심으로 하여 이들간의 인과관계를 정립하고. 그 요인들이 미치는 영향력을 중심으로 하여 차후의 연구를 위한 시사점을 제공할 목적으로 수행되었다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 기존의 연구결과에서 나타난 문제점을 보완하고. 보다 진전된 연구결과를 도출함으로써 신용협동조합 직원들의 대 조합원 서비스의 질에 대한 향상방안을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Korea Trade
• /
• 제23권3호
• /
• pp.84-104
• /
• 2019

Purpose - This paper explains why free trade agreements (FTAs) are more popular than customs unions (CUs) in respect of tariff coordination. Design/methodology - This paper employs an equilibrium theory of trade agreements with tariff coordination. I set up three-country partial equilibrium model with competing exporters. Domestic and exporting firms decide their optimal production under given tariffs and each country levies its tariff under the trade agreements. I found stability of implicit tariff coordination and preference of each country between an FTA and a CU. Findings - I demonstrate that two FTA members can keep their external tariffs higher than separately decided external tariffs by keeping the status-quo. This implicit tariff coordination can benefit each member through trade diversion. In a CU, each member country must have a common optimal external tariff and it must incur costs because each country may seek different external tariffs for their own national welfare. The benefit of implicit coordination in an FTA and the cost of explicit coordination in a CU account for the popularity of the FTA. Originality/value - This paper uses the idea of implicit tariff coordination in trade agreements. In a CU, tariff coordination is explicit and mandatory. All member countries must have a single common external tariff for each good. On the other hand, in an FTA, each country establishes its external tariff with the goal of maximizing its own welfare. However, each country can also coordinate "implicitly" by keeping the status-quo after establishing an FTA.

• 한국사회정책
• /
• 제25권2호
• /
• pp.429-446
• /
• 2018

급속한 디지털 기술혁신으로 인한 경제 산업구조의 거대한 변동을 일컫는 4차 산업혁명이 노사관계에 크나큰 영향을 미치며 많은 갈등이슈를 유발할 것으로 예상된다. 4차 산업혁명에 따른 예상 이슈로는 (1) 기술대체에 따른 고용조정 또는 직무재배치 및 숙련재교육의 실시여부, 기계-작업자 상호관계의 설정방식, 그리고 노동강도 협상과 작업장수준의 노동자율성 보장, (2) 플랫폼매개 노동의 확산에 따른 디지털 특고에 대한 제도적 보호장치의 법제화 및 노동자성 인정 여부와 규제입법 방식, (3) 불안정 노동에 대한 실업안전망과 소득보전대책 및 재원확보 방안 그리고 직무훈련 정책 지원, (4) 작업감시 규제와 노동자 프라이버시의 보호 방법, (5) 디지털 특고의 노동권 보장여부와 노동조합 조직체계 및 교섭구조 그리고 불안정노동자의 권익대변과 조직화 관련 제도 개선 등을 손꼽을 수 있다. 서구 노동조합들은 4차 산업혁명에 대해 상반된 대응양상을 보여주고 있는데, 독일 노조들의 경우 디지털 기술혁신에 따른 파급문제를 사전 예방하기 위해 노사정간의 정책협의와 노사간의 단체교섭 등을 효과적으로 운용하는 '형성'전략의 대응을 보여주는 반면, 영미권의 노동조합들은 우버 등의 플랫폼매개 노동자들에 대한 권익대변과 노조 조직화를 위해 전통적인 '보호'투쟁의 운동방식을 적용해오고 있다. 서구 노조들의 대응사례를 잘 참조하여 4차 산업혁명의 진전에 따른 노사갈등을 최소화할 뿐 아니라 디지털 혁신으로 인한 '파괴적 피해'를 효과적으로 대비하기 위해 노사정간에 다양한 수준의 정책협의와 노조의 정책'형성' 전략이 적극 강구되어 추진되어야 할 것이다. 4차 산업혁명을 대비하는 노동 4.0에 대한 사회적 대화와 산별교섭 및 업종별 정책협의 그리고 사업장 협상을 추진함에 있어서는 디지털 기술혁신이 미칠 수 있는 예상 폐해를 종합적으로 대처할 수 있는 포괄적이며 종합적인 접근이 요망된다.

• 보건의료산업학회지
• /
• 제2권1호
• /
• pp.56-83
• /
• 2008

The purpose of this study was to provide basic materials needed to enhance quality of organizational life by identifying the improvements of labor union management in the perspective of general hospital organization management. The subject of this study were 686 employees in 12 General Hospitals in Metro Capital including Seoul. Materials were collected from administrators, nurses and medical technicians in target hospitals from March 20 to May 10, 2005 through survey questionnaires. The main results of this study were as follows: 1. the commitment level of the subjects according to their characteristics was higher in older employees than the younger ones, large family to support than small family to support and those who had higher positions in labor union. 2. The commitment level of the subjects according to the job and role related variables were higher those who had higher satisfaction level to their job and manager, role conflict in all hospitals. 3. The commitment level of the subjects according to union related variables, variables jointly controlled by union and employer was satistically significant positive correlation. In other words, the commitment level of the subjects according to the subjects' labor union involvement was higher in those who had higher satisfaction in labor union and perceived their colleagues' attitudes more positively in all hospitals. Regarding the atmosphere of the relationship between union and employer and the level of commitment in labor union, the better the atmosphere of the relationship between union and employer was, the higher the level of commitment in labor union was in all hospitals. 4. The results of multiple regression analysis shows that formal and informal socialization, union participation to the union management cooperation program, job satisfaction, satisfaction with the labor union's were all found as important antecedents of labor union commitment. 5. Job and role-related variables, union-related variables, variables jointly controlled by union and employer, and labor union commitment level were all found significantly different in accordance with the characteristics of unions concerned. To summarize study results, the level of commitment in labor union depends on job satisfaction, manager's attitudes, satisfaction to their jobs, union satisfaction, their colleagues attitudes toward union and the atmosphere of employer-employee relationship. Therefore hospital managers should have democratic and flexible attitudes toward labor union. Additionally, as formal and informal socialization, union participation to the union-management cooperation program is important determinant in union commitment, hospital managers should have countermeasures to enhance the colleague attitude and job satisfaction level of hospital employees. Since this study deals with psychological nature of workers not a few drawbacks and shortcomings may be detected in the finding. Nevertheless, the finding of this study, to become a momentum that will stimulate further research to detect all the cues of labor union commitment and to provide valuable reference in forming logical union commitment and labor union-management cooperation.

• 보건행정학회지
• /
• 제10권3호
• /
• pp.108-128
• /
• 2000

The Korean government has implemented the policy for merging 141 health insurers into Korean Unified Health Insurer (KUHI) in July of 2000. The unification of multiple insurers will definitely effect the stability of financial management, equity of premium burdens and efficiency of administrative management. However, it is difficult to predict what forms the far-reaching effects of the unification would take. Thus, pursuing the unification may be express as a huge policy experiment. In order to lead the unification, which lies on a crossroad between success and failure, to the road of success, we need to infer the problems and obstacles predicted in the step-wise processes of merging organizations, finances and the systems of computing premium, and come up with the effective means to maintain the stability of financial management, to improve the equity of premium burdens and to increase the efficiency of administrative management. Thus, I first described the changes of the Korean medical insurance system, and analyzed the performances of self-employed medical insurance 1 year after the integration of societies in October of 1998. At the base of examining the stability of financial management, equity of premium burdens and efficiency of administrative management, I predicted the problems and obstacles that could occur after the unification of the multiple medical insurers, and proposed a few ways of leading the unification of the multiple medical insurers in Korea to success. The most worried factor is that insurance finance would become unstable since the expansion of premium revenues is not easy because raising the premium for all Koreans is to be difficult. In addition, the unification of insurance finance could weaken the insurer's efforts for declaring real incomes of the self-employed and increasing the collection rate of premiums from them. This weakening would be the decisive factor of lowering the equity of premium contributions between the self-employed and employees. And bureaucratization and rigidity that are unavoidable in a gigantic unified organization could lower the efficiency of administrative management. Furthermore, by having 3 labor unions in the unified organization, it is possible to experience frequent difficulties and discords among the unions and between the unions and organization. Thus, when smooth pursuing of the unification of multiple insurers gets difficult, the social expenses derived from the failure would eventually end up on all Koreans. The unification is to be performed after coming up with the ways to eradicate these worries, so that the unification of multiple insurers would step onto the road of success.

• 한국언론정보학보
• /
• 제57권
• /
• pp.69-83
• /
• 2012

이 글은 한국의 언론노조운동의 전개 과정과 당면 과제를 논의한다. 언론노조운동은 미디어 지니는 독특한 생산물인 정보의 특성으로 인하여, 권위주의 체제 하에서 국가의 억압과 규제를 받아 왔다. 민주화를 계기로 이러한 억압과 규제가 어느 정도 약화되었지만, 언론노조운동은 자본의 억압과 규제에 저항하는 노조의 인정투쟁과 편집권 독립투쟁을 동시에 수행해야 했다. 동시에 노동시장 조직으로서의 언론노조는 고용안정과 임금보장을 추구해야 한다는 점에서 언론노조운동은 정치적 차원과 경제적 차원의 이해를 요구한다. 1990년대 후반 들어서 직접적인 국가의 미디어 통제는 약화되었지만, 미디어 시장경쟁이 가속화되고, 독점 언론사들이 등장하면서, 시장화에 따른 미디어 생태계 변화가 나타났다. 한국 언론노조운동은 이러한 시장화에 대응하면서 동시에 미디어 노동자들의 연대를 만들어 내야하는 과제를 안고 있다. 아직까지도 미디어의 공공성 확보라는 민주화의 요구와 시장화에 대응하여 산별언론노조 건설이 여전히 가장 중요한 시대적 과제로 남아있다. 이를 위해서 한진중공업 희망버스 사례처럼, 시민사회와 노동운동의 연대를 통한 언론노조운동의 강화가 모색될 필요가 있다.

• 한국산림과학회지
• /
• 제98권5호
• /
• pp.618-629
• /
• 2009

The objective of this study was to examine the impact of pruning (P treatment) and transplanting (T treatment) of Acer palmatum on cambial growth and compartmentalization of pruning wounds for one year after treatments. Changes of cambial electrical resistance (CER), sizes of pruning wounds, cambial growth of trunks and stems near the wounds, and total phenols at branch unions during the period were examined using a total of 49 trees. After harvesting, areas of discolored wood behind the wounds, relative proportions of extractives, holocellulose and lignin at branch unions were also determined. CER and the cambial growth of trunk at 30 cm above the ground (TGR) were inversely correlated, and differences of CER and TGR among three treatments were significant. TGRs of control, P treatment and P+T treatment after the treatments were 112.2%, 72.4% and 52.5% of the annual growth for the year before the treatments, respectively. The cambial growth rate of stem (SGR) at 1.5 cm above the branch bark ridge and the closure rate of pruning wound (WCR) for one year after treatments were positively correlated, and WCR of P treatment of 39.8% was significantly higher than that of P+T treatment of 31.8%. Wounds of P+T treatment formed greater discolored area per unit area of pruning wound (D/W Ratio) than those of P treatment significantly. Lower WCR and higher D/W Ratio of P+T treatment suggested less ability of compartmentalizing the wounds than P treatment. Total phenols at branch core of pruning wound for both treatments heightened a month after treatment, and then lowered. The contents at below core of the wound were higher than those at control ones continuously, while they became similar each other at above core. Relatively high phenol contents of the extractives at P+T treatment implied that trees with P+T treatment allocated more energy to compartmentalize their wounds. Holocellulose and lignin contents at the branch core of treated branch unions of both treatments were lower and higher, respectively, than at the same part of the union with living branch, as results of the tree reaction to protection from wounding and microbial invasion.