Article 51 (Support for Qualification Test Projects) (1) With regard to those who undertake a project falling under any of the following subparagraphs, the Minister of Employment and Labor may support all or part of the expenses necessary for the project pursuant to Article 31 (1) 2.: <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21015, Sept. 18, 2008 and Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010>
1.A qualification test project carried out by an employer to improve workers' skills; and
2.A project carried out by a national technical qualification test agency under the National Technical Qualification Act to make it convenient for insured persons to acquire a qualification;
(2)The qualification test project under paragraph (1) 1 shall meet all of the following requirements:
1.The qualification test project shall be undertaken by an employer alone or jointly for workers of the business concerned or a business related to the business concerned;
2.The qualification test project shall be directly related to knowledge and skills needed in the business concerned;
3.Regulations giving preferential treatment to workers who have acquired the qualification in terms of promotion, pay raises, remunerations, etc., shall be established and implemented;
4.In relation to the test project, any expenses, including test fees, shall not be collected from workers who intend to acquire the qualification;
5.The qualification test shall not be for profits; and
6.The qualification test project shall meet other requirements prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010>
(3) Necessary matters concerning the application for and method of the support under paragraph (1), etc., shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010>
Article 52 (Promotion of Vocational Skills Development) (1)"Activities prescribed in the Presidential Decree" in Article 31 (1) 3 of the Act refers to the following activities: <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 21348, Mar. 12, 2009 ; Presidential Decree No. 22026, Feb. 8, 2010; Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010; Presidential Decree No. 22356, Aug. 25, 2010; and Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 13, 2012>
1.Research and studies related to vocational skills development programs;
2.Educational and public relations activities for vocational skills development programs;
3. Development, publication and distribution of training media for vocational skills development programs;
4.Vocational skills development programs conducted in cooperation by an employer's organization, a workers' organization or a confederation of such organizations;
5.Programs to support the system of certifying the best companies for human resources development;
6.Vocational skills development programs that after signing an agreement with two or more employers providing vocational skills development training, an employer, an employers' organization, a school under Article 2 of the Higher Education Act etc., carries out for the workers of those employers under the agreement;
7.Education and training programs implemented to cultivate vocational skills development training instructors under Articles 36 and 37 of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act and human resources managers under Article 19 (1) 6 of the Enforcement Decree of the same Act and to develop their skills ;
8.Vocational skills development training provided pursuant to Article 12 of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act;
9.Education and training provided as the education and training courses polytechnic colleges shall offer pursuant to Article 40 of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act;
10.Vocational skills development training (limited to excellent training courses recognized by the Minister of Employment and Labor) provided to improve the core job skills of employers or workers of preferentially supported enterprises; <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010>
11.Vocational skills development programs implemented to promote learning organization, such as expanding opportunities for workers of preferentially supported enterprises to acquire job knowledge or enabling them to accumulate and share job knowledge within their companies, etc.;
12.Vocational skills development programs implemented to increase the capabilities of employers or human resources managers of preferentially supported enterprises to develop human resources;
13.Programs to support systematic on-the-job training by preferentially supported enterprises;
14.Deleted. <Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010>
15.Other activities to promote vocational skills development.
(2) If a vocational skills development program under paragraph (1) 6 is carried out, the Minister of Employment and Labor may provide the sum of the amounts (hereinafter referred to as "individual amounts" in this paragraph) obtained by multiplying the maximum amount of subsidy for vocational skills development training expenses each employer who has signed the agreement is entitled to receive yearly pursuant to Article 42 (1) through (3) by the ratio determined and announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor directly to the operator of the relevant vocational skills development program. In such cases, the individual amounts shall be considered to have been provided within the upper limit of support for expenses each employer who has signed the agreement is subject to pursuant to Article 42 (1) through (3). <Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 31, 2012>
(4) Necessary matters concerning the application for support for expenses under paragraph (1), support method, etc., shall be determined by the Minister of Employment and Labor. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 23513, Jan. 13, 2012>
Article 53 (Entrustment of Vocational Skills Development Training Programs) (1) If the Minister of Employment and Labor intends to entrust the implementation of vocational skills development training programs pursuant to Article 31 (2) of the Act, he/she shall establish a plan for the vocational skills development training programs to be entrusted every year. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010>
(2)The vocational skills development training programs prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be regarded as vocational skills development training for national key and strategic industry occupations (hereinafter referred to as "national key and strategic industry occupation training") under Article 15 of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010>
(3) The provision of national key and strategic industry occupation training shall be entrusted to a facility or an institution prescribed in each paragraph of Article 12 of the Enforcement Decree of the Workers Vocational Skills Development Act. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010>
(4) Necessary matters concerning the provision of national key and strategic industry occupation training etc., such as targeted trainees, training procedures and support for training expenses and allowances for national key and strategic industry occupation training, etc. shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010 and Presidential Decree No. 22603, Dec. 31, 2010>
Article 54 (Support for Vocational Skills Development of Construction Workers) (1) Pursuant to Article 32 of the Act, the Minister of Employment and Labor may, if an employer or an employers' organization in the construction industry conducts vocational skills development training to develop or improve the vocational skills of construction workers who are not employed in a specified workplace and are determined and announced by the Minister of Employment and Labor, support part of the costs, and if they provide training allowances to the construction workers during the training, support the expenses required. <Amended by Presidential Decree No. 22269, Jul. 12, 2010>
(2) Article 41 (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the support for vocational skills development training costs under paragraph (1).