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South Korea labor minister says increasing work week would be helpful to mothers
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The labor minister of South Korea defended increasing the weekly work cap as helpful for mothers, citing that employees would be able to accrue overtime in return for days off.
"We’ll introduce bold measures to help cut working hours during pregnancy or while raising children," the minister, Lee Jung-sik, told a media briefing when asked whether the labour reform proposal will help tackle South Korea's fertility crisis.
Critics of the measure, however, have said that the measures will hurt, not help, working mothers and other women.
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