On the 6th, the ruling and opposition parties held a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee on the 6th and continued their final discussion on the issues of the Severe Accident Corporate Punishment Act.
Democratic Party chief spokesman Choi In-ho said after finishing the highest ranking on the same day, “it seems to be almost catching up today.”
It is very likely that the grace period for small businesses will be given for more than two years.
In addition, the power of the Democratic Party and the people agree that it is necessary to put a grace period in fear of the damage to SMEs.
The government is of the opinion that it should postpone application for four years to workplaces with less than 50 employees and two years to workplaces with less than 300 employees.
Among public facilities, discussions will take place in the direction of excluding small self-employed persons and small business owners.
Regarding the special provisions for punishment of public officials, concerns of the local government that it could lead to a’passive administration’ were conveyed to the judiciary again.
On the other hand, the Justice Party is strongly opposed to the application of the grace period, saying that there are many problems with the contents agreed to date.
Justice Party CEO Kim Jong-cheol said at an emergency press conference, “We can never accept the delay in the application period for workplaces with less than 50 employees.”
For the rest of the issues, an agreement between the ruling and opposition parties has generally been drawn up.
In the event of a fatal accident, the corporate representative or executive’management manager’ was imprisoned for more than one year or a fine of not more than 1 billion won. It was decided to impose a fine of not more than 5 billion won on the death accident.
The government accepted the opinion that the sentence of the original bill was excessive, but made a compromise by raising the upper limit rather than the government draft.
The punitive damages provisions of corporations were also adjusted to a maximum of five times the amount of damages in response to the government’s opinion.
(yunhap news)
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