INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMPENSATION INSURANCE ACT [See entire ACT]
CHAPTER Ⅳ Labor Welfare Projects
- Article 92 (Labor Welfare Projects)
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(1) The Minister of Employment and Labor shall carry out projects described in any of the following subparagraphs to promote workers’ welfare：[Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
1. Establishment and operation of insurance facilities described in any of the following items to promote a smooth return to society of workers affected by work-related accidents：
A. Facilities for medical care and post-surgery care；and
B. Facilities for medical or occupational rehabilitation；
2. Projects to promote the welfare of accident victims and their survivors, such as scholarship project, etc.；
3. Other projects to establish and operate facilities for promoting the welfare of workers.
(2) The Minister of Employment and Labor may have the Corporation or any juristic persons (hereinafter referred to as the “designated juristic persons”) established to promote the welfare of accident victims and designated by the Minister of Employment and Labor carry out the projects as referred to in paragraph (1), or may entrust them with the operation of insurance facilities pursuant to subparagraph 1 of the same paragraph. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
(3) Necessary matters concerning criteria for the designation of juristic persons shall be prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
(4) The Minister of Employment and Labor may support part of the expenses for the projects of designated juristic persons within the limits of budgets. [Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010]
- Article 93 (Loans for Individual Co-payment of Medical Care Benefit Costs under National Health Insurance)
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(1) If any person prescribed by Presidential Decree in consideration of the period, etc. taking to make a decision on medical care benefits, files a request for medical care in relation to an occupational disease referred to in Article 37 (1) 2, the Service may offer a loan to such person for the individual co-payment of medical care benefit costs under Article 44 of the National Health Insurance Act.
(2) If there are any medical care benefits under this Act payable to a person, who is provided with a loan pursuant to paragraph (1), the Service may appropriate such medical care benefits for the repayment of the loan.
(3) The amount, conditions and procedures of a loan referred to in paragraph (1) shall be determined by the Service with the approval of the Minister of Employment and Labor.
(4) The maximum limit to and procedures for the appropriation of medical care benefits referred to in paragraph (2) shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.
Enforcement Ordinance
- Article 84 (Persons Eligible for Loans for Individual Co-Payment of Medical Care Benefit Costs under National Health Insurance)
"Person prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 93 (1) of the Act refers to any person who meets all of the following requirements:
1. The Service has not rendered a decision on medical care benefits until 30 days after the employee applied for the medical care benefits pursuant to Article 41 (1) of the Act;
2. There has been a medical opinion that a proximate causal relationship is presumed to exist between the employee's job and the disease in relation to which the employee applies for medical care benefits.
Enforcement Ordinance
- Article 85 (Maximum Limit to and Procedure for Appropriation for Loans)
(1) When the Corporation makes an appropriation pursuant to Article 93 (2) of the Act, the maximum appropriation limit shall be the full amount of medical care benefits to be paid to the person provided with the loans.
(2) If the Corporation intends to make an appropriation pursuant to paragraph (1), it shall hear opinions from the person entitled to the medical care benefits and once it has decided to appropriate, shall inform without delay the person entitled to the medical care benefits of this.
- Article 94 (Employment Promotion for Recipients of Disability Benefits)
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The Minister of Employment and Labor may recommend any policyholder to employ recipients of disability benefits or pneumoconiosis compensation annuities in jobs appropriate to their aptitudes.
Enforcement Ordinance
- Article 85-2 (Guidelines, etc. for Computation of Contributions)
In order to compute an amount that shall be contributed from the Fund to the National Health Insurance Service under Article 13 of the National Health Insurance Act pursuant to Article 96 (1) 7 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "National Health Insurance Service"), the Minister of Employment and Labor shall determine matters necessary for the guidelines, etc. for determining the range of the amount and guidelines for computing the amount, consulting thereon with the Minister of Health and Welfare.
[This Article Newly Inserted by Presidential Decree No. 22410, Sep. 29, 2010]
