In a bid to raise the country’s record-low birth rate, Seoul and the Ministry of Employment and Labour are reviewing a pilot project to bring domestic helpers from countries such as the Philippines to help families with childcare and housework.
The government plans to issue E-9 visas for the workers through the addition of domestic help to the list of fields allowed under the employment permit system. The workers can then be hired by families in South Korea through certified service providers as early as this fall. He wrote late last month on Facebook that he agrees with Nobel laureate and economist Michael Kremer who said South Korea needs an immigration policy, and mentioned Hong Kong and Singapore as examples that have successfully implemented large-scale special visa programmes for foreign domestic workers.
A revised Bill to exempt foreign domestic workers from the minimum wage law was submitted in March, only to face strong criticism that it was discriminatory.
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