Free counseling for foreign residents from living difficulties to employment and industrial accidents 올해 Expanding support agencies this year
○ Gyeonggi-do Province implements counseling support projects for the stable settlement of foreign residents
- Free grievance counseling support through 15 institutions in the province this year 전 4 more than the previous year
- Consultation on living difficulties, immigration, overdue wages, employment, industrial accidents, medical services, etc. 전화 Telephone counseling is also available.
○ Significantly contributes to the guarantee of the labor rights of foreign residents and the stable settlement of local communities
A counseling service for foreign residents conducted by Gyeonggi Province to realize a "fair world in which labor is respected" without discrimination is greatly helping foreigners living in the province to guarantee their labor rights and settle down in a stable community.
According to Gyeonggi Province on the 25th, a Vietnamese worker A, who is staying in Gyeonggi Province on an E-7 visa in February, will not receive 2.5 million won a month in January from his company.
While he was worried that his Korean was poor and he didn't know the proper rights relief process, he found out about Gyeonggi Province's "foreign residents' grievance service" and asked for help from the Suwon Foreign Welfare Center, which supports the service.
As a result, the center will deploy a counselor from Vietnam to provide free consultation in Vietnamese on related laws and methods of rights relief, and A will be able to receive overdue wages from his employer based on this.
As the demand for counseling and interpretation of migrants who suffer such unfair treatment increases, the province has invested a total of 580 million won this year to greatly expand the number of institutions that can receive free counseling services.
Through this, 15 foreign residents-related institutions and organizations will be selected this year, up four from 11 last year, and more foreign residents will be able to benefit from counseling services.
The provincial government that can receive the service is Suwon Foreign Welfare Center, Goyang Seungida Cultural Vision Center, Yongin Foreign Welfare Center, Seongnam Foreign Community Welfare Center, Bucheon Migrant Support Center, Hwaseong Foreign Welfare Center, Ansan Foreign Resident Support Center, Namyangju Foreign Welfare Center, Pyeongtaek Foreign Welfare Center, Siheung.
Foreign residents can receive free professional counseling related to labor and law, such as immigration, wage arrears, employment, industrial accidents, and medical services, as well as living difficulties through the institution.
Hong Dong-dong, head of the Gyeonggi-do Foreign Policy Division, said, "There is no reason to be discriminated against because of differences in language and nationality, so we will actively consult and support problems that foreign residents cannot solve alone."
For more information, contact the city's foreign welfare center.
