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Labor law for workers and office employees

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- June 24 is the 57th anniversary of the promulgation of the Labor law for the workers and office employees in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Busy as he was to organize and guide the work for building the party, state and army right after the liberation of the country, President Kim Il Sung inspected various industrial establishments to acquaint himself with working conditions and demand of the workers.
    One day in November Juche 34 (1945), he went to the Pyongyang Cornstarch Factory to learn about the working conditions of those engaged in harmful labor. When he called at a ceramic factory in Kyongsong county, North Hamgyong Province he indicated ways of mechanizing its workers' manual labor.
    While inspecting an iron works and chemical factories, he conversed with workers for hours and took measures for labor safety.
    Whenever he was in an inspection tour, he used to look round dinning rooms, dormitories and dwelling houses of workers and acquainted himself with the management of the sanatoriums and rest homes newly built in hot spring areas and scenic spots. in those days, he completed articles of the Labor Law one by one.
    On the basis of this, the "Labor Law for the Workers and Office Employees in North Korea" was promulgated at the 9th session of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea in June 1946.
    With the law put into effect as an important step of democratic reforms, the remnants of the harsh colonial forced labor and exploitation by the Japanese imperialists were liquidated, a radical improvement was made in the working and living conditions of the workers and office employees. The social insurance and security system was carried into effect at the expense of the state and sanatoriums and rest homes were built in different parts of the country. As a result, great changes took place in their material and cultural life.
    After the establishment of the socialist system, the "Socialist Labor Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" was instituted and promulgated in April 1978 as required by the changed situation. It guarantees the working life of the people by law.