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The Regulations are prescribed in accordance with Paragraph 4 to Article 43 of the Act for Settlement of Labor-Management Disputes (here-in-after referred to as the Act).

The Board for Decision on the Unfair Labor Practices (here-in-after referred to as the Board) shall have seven to fifteen members who shall be appointed by the Central Competent Authority for a term of service of two years. Board members shall elect among themselves one as the Chair of the Board.
In case that there is a vacancy on the Board, the Central Competent Authority shall appoint a new member to serve until the term of service of other incumbent members is expired.

The Central Competent Authority shall appoint a person who is familiar with labor statutes and regulations and labor-management relations and also has one of the following qualifications as a member of the Board.
1. Person who has served or is currently serving as a judge, public prosecutor, attorney-at-law, or others with professional or technical practice in accordance with related statutes for no less than five years.
2. Person who has served or is currently serving as an assistant professor or above teaching law, labor-related courses or social sciences at universities or colleges certified by the Ministry of Education for no less than five years.
3. Person who has other experiences adequately proving that he/she is familiar with labor statutes and regulations and labor-management relations.

A person with one of the following situations is not qualified to be appointed as a member of the Board:
1. Person who has been declared as suspending civic rights which have not yet being restored.
2. Person who has been declared as bankruptcy which has not yet being restored.
3. Person who has started to undergo liquidation procedures in accordance with the Statute for Consumers’ Debts Clearance and his/her financial transaction rights have not yet being restored.
4. Person who has been declared under guardianship or supervision and the declaration has not yet being revoked.
5. Person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for more than one year, but not including the one who committed crime due to negligence, or has been declared a reprieve.

The Central Competent Authority, after investigating and confirming, shall dismiss an appointed member with one of the following situations:
1. Member who does not have one of the qualifications referred to in Article 3.
2. Member who has one of the situations referred to in the preceding article.

A board member shall voluntarily evade provided any one of the following situations:
1.Once was the member of mediation committee or mediator for such dispute case.
2.A board member or his/her spouse or former spouse is the co-obligee or co-obligor of the concerned party for such dispute case.
3.A board member or his/her spouse, former spouse, blood relation within the fourth degree or relation by marriage within the third degree or the person who once had such relations is a party in dispute case.
4.Currently is or once was the agent, parent or family member of a party in such dispute case.
5.Where the labor union is a party in the dispute case, a board member is the member, director, supervisor or conference staff of labor union.
6.Where the employer group or employer is a party in the dispute case, a board member is the member, director, supervisor, conference staff or employee of such employer group or employer.
7.There are specific facts sufficient to identify the biased duty performance.

Provided any one of the following situations, the parties may apply to the Central Competent Authority for evasion of board members:
1.A board member fails to evade voluntarily under the situations as prescribed in preceding article.
2.There are specific facts sufficient to identify the biased duty execution by a board member.
After having made statements on the unfair labor practice decision, the parties shall not apply for evasion of a board member according to the preceding two paragraphs, except for the reason for evasion occurs or is known thereafter.

The reason and facts for application for evasion of a board member shall be submitted to the Central Competent Authority for application.
Appropriate explanation for the reason and facts in preceding paragraph and the facts prescribed in proviso in the second paragraph of preceding article shall be made within three days as of the date of application.
The board member who is being applied for evasion may propose opinion on such application.

The board member who is being applied for evasion may actively evade after considering the applicant’s reason for evasion application.

Center Competent Authority shall submit to the Board for handling within three days after receiving the evasion application.
After acceptance, the Board shall make a resolution within seven days; if the board meeting cannot be convened due to insufficient quorum, the Chair of the Board will make a decision.
The resolution of the board meeting in preceding paragraph will be notified by the Central Competent Authority to the party applying for evasion.

When a board member is being applied for evasion, before such application event is permitted or rejected, he/she shall stop participating in decision rendering procedure. But in case of urgent situation, the Chair of the Board may carry out necessary handling.

The party that files the application for an unfair labor practice decision is the applicant and the other party is the respondent.
Both the applicant and the respondent are the parties concerned of the unfair labor practice dispute.

When an applicant filing an application for an unfair labor practice decision in accordance with Article 40 of the Act, in addition to the application, such applicant shall provide five originals of relevant written explanation or its attached document, and provide transcripts or photocopies thereof in accordance with the number of respondents.
In case that an applicant appoints an agent, he/she shall also submit a written authorization.

After receiving the application for an unfair labor practice decision, the Board may designate one to three members to conduct a preliminary review, and convene a board meeting within seven days after review.
For the preliminary review mentioned in preceding paragraph, a board member may inform the parties to attend the meeting for explanation when necessary.

The Board shall reject an application for an unfair labor practice decision when it has one of the following situations:
1. Violation of Paragraph 2 to Article 39 of the Act.
2. Situation referred to in Paragraph 6 to Article 44 of the Act.
3. Applicant applies in the name of a labor union, but it is actually not a labor union prescribed in the Labor Union Act.
4. When a labor union files an application in accordance with Paragraph 1 to Article 6 of the Collective Agreements Act, but it is not qualified as a bargaining unit as prescribed in Paragraph 3 to Article 6 of the same Act.
In case that an application for an unfair labor practice is inconsistent with the requirements referred to in Article 40 of the Act, the Board shall order the applicant to correct them within a given period. If the applicant cannot make the correction after the expiration of the period, the Board shall reject the application.
The Board shall reject the application in a written decision, and the items listed therein, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, Article 47 of the Act.

Except rendering decision for rejecting the application referred to in the preceding article, the Board shall send the transcripts or photocopies of application to the respondent, and may order the respondent to explain in writing.
Starting from the date of receiving the transcripts or photocopies of application, the respondent shall submit the written explanation referred to in the preceding paragraph within seven days.

In the process of decision rendering, for the written explanation and its attached document, in addition to providing five originals to the Board, the parties shall voluntarily notify the other parties directly by means of transcripts or photocopies in accordance with the number of other parties.
In case of any dispute on whether or not the other parties have received the written explanation as prescribed in preceding paragraph, the parties who propose the question shall testify; if testification fails, a notice shall be supplemented.

Applicant for an unfair labor practice decision may withdraw all or part of the application before the end of the final hearing procedure in which the Board has reached an unfair labor practice decision in accordance with Article 46 of the Act. However, if the respondent has already made oral statements in the hearing procedure, his/her consent shall be acquired.
Withdrawal of application for an unfair labor practice shall be made in writing. However, before the end of final hearing procedure in which the Board has reached an unfair labor practice decision, the withdrawal may be made orally to the Board.
Withdrawal that is made orally shall be recorded in the minute book, and it shall be sent to the respondent if he/she is not present.
Within seven days after the application for an unfair labor practice decision is withdrawn, the Board shall notify the respondent of the withdrawal.

The Board shall fairly process matters concerning the fact-finding, hearing and rendering of unfair labor practice decisions.

The Board meetings shall be presided over by the Chair of the Board. In case that the Chair of the Board cannot attend the meeting, he/she shall designate a board member to act on his/her behalf.

The Board, if necessary, may invite scholars, experts, other administrative institutions, related units or personnel that are concerned with the unfair labor practice decision to attend the meeting without voting right to make statements or provide their opinions.

When conducting a fact-finding in accordance with Paragraphs 2 to 3 to Article 44 of the Act, board members may make a fact-finding plan and take the following measures:
1. Notify the parties, persons or business entities concerned to provide oral or written statements.
2. Listen to opinions of the parties or question the witnesses.
3. Order an expert examiner to provide an examination report or question the expert examiner.
4. Notify institutions concerned to assist in providing documents, files, and items.
5. Enter into related business entities for interviewing and investigation.
When board members conduct a fact-finding, they shall make a fact-finding record.

In the fact-finding meeting, board members may question the parties, witness, expert examiner, persons or business entities concerned.
With the permission of board members, the parties or agents may state opinions and question the other parties, witness, expert examiner, persons or business entities concerned.
When board members think that the preceding statements or questioning are repeated or have nothing to do with the dispute, or have other inappropriate situations, board members may restrict or prohibit it.

Before questioning in accordance with the preceding article, board members shall inform the person being questioned not to make false explanation, provide false information or refuse to make explanation without good cause.
If the person being questions violates the preceding stipulation, he/she shall be imposed a penalty in accordance with Article 63 of the Act.
Board members may use complementary clause to record the matters in the first paragraph, and ask the person being ask to sign.

When board members order one of the parties to provide related documents in accordance with Paragraph 2 to Article 44 of the Act but that party refuses to comply without justifiable reasons, they may, after evaluating all the circumstances, regard that the other party’s assertions on those documents or the facts derived from those documents are true.
Before finalizing the fact-finding, the board members shall give the party refusing to comply referred to in preceding paragraph an opportunity to state his/her opinions.

If the parties think that the originals of written explanation or its attached document provided by the other party are inconsistent with the transcripts or photocopies, the originals provided to the Board shall prevail.

A fact-finding report made by board members shall include the following matters:
1. Place, day, month and year of the fact-finding.
2. The names of board members and the staff member who makes the record.
3. The case of unfair labor practice dispute.
4. The names of the attending parties, agents and other concerned persons allowed to present.
5. The outlines of assertions and statements made by the parties and concerned persons.
6. The statements of the witnesses and the examination results provided by the expert examiner.
7. The fact-finding record(s).
8. The fact-finding opinions.
The fact-finding report referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be submitted to the Board.

The Chair of the Board shall convene a board meeting within seven days when the board members made the fact-finding report.
The Board shall notify the parties to make oral statements during the hearing procedures in accordance with the final part of Paragraph 1 to Article 46 of the Act. If necessary, the Board may also notify concerned persons to make their statements.
Before the Board proceeds to conduct the hearing procedures referred to in the preceding paragraph, it shall set the hearing date and make a hearing notification including the time, day and place. The notification shall be sent to the parties and concerned persons.

The Board may openly proceed to conduct the hearing procedures referred to in the preceding article.
The Chair of the Board shall preside over the hearing procedures.
A questioning record shall be made and the following matters shall be listed:
1. The place, day, month and year of the statements that are made.
2. The names of board members and the staff member who makes the record.
3. The case of unfair labor practice dispute.
4. The names of the attending parties, agents and other concerned persons allowed to present.
5. The outlines of assertions and statements made by the parties and concerned persons.

Before the end of hearing procedure, the Chair of the Board shall give both parties the opportunity to make the final statement.
After the end of hearing procedure, if necessary, the Chair of the Board may listen to the opinions of attending board members before carrying out hearing or fact-finding procedure.

The Board or the board members may order person who obstructs a fact-finding or hearing procedure to leave. Police assistance may be sought to remove the obstruction, if necessary.

The Board may conciliate the disputes for the parties any time during the procedures of rendering a decision on unfair labor practice.

For the decision made for the civil dispute that is derived from the stipulation of Paragraph 2 to Article 35 of the Labor Union Act, in case that one of the parties, within thirty days after the original copy of the decision has delivered, files a civil lawsuit to the court and suits the other party concerned as the defendant with the same civil dispute covered by the original decision, that party shall notify the Board in writing, and the same shall apply upon withdrawal of civil lawsuit.

The consents deemed as both parties have reached in accordance with Paragraph 1 to Article 48 of the Act include the matter that is procedurally dismissed by a court ruling.

After a decision on the unfair labor practice has been approved by the court, the Central Competent Authority shall send the decision to the parties.

In case that a court refuses to approve the decision on the unfair labor practice that is sent to the court by the Board for approval, the Central Competent Authority shall send the ruling of the court to the Board for action to be taken.
When taking an action on the matter, the Board shall review the opinions of the parties if necessary.

The transportation allowances and cost of accommodations per diem for witnesses and expert examiners shall be paid in accordance with the criteria stipulated in the reimbursement regulations governing domestic transportation allowances and cost of accommodations per diem for civil servants below the recommended appointment rank.The expense for expert examination shall be decided by the Central Competent Authority in accordance with the simplicity and complexity of the case involved.
The expenditures prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be paid by the Central Competent Authority from its budget.

Before the promulgation of the Regulations, the decision rendering cases already accepted and the decision rendering procedures thereafter shall be hearing in accordance with the stipulations hereof.

The Regulations shall become effective on the date of promulgation.