The Chosun Ilbo team for the National Agenda Project proposed employment and labor-management reform as one of the priority tasks for the next president. The team concluded that labor and management grew to be more group-egocentric in the Kim Dae-jung Administration, while minorities in the workforce, such as irregular employees and females, were deprived of the rights they deserve, and suggested reform in these areas from the next president.

Six experts including Professor Park Sae-il of Seoul National University, and Professor Kim Jang-ho of Sukmyung University, suggested a Foreign Workforce License System be introduced to legalize employing more migrant laborers, and a Female Employment Quota for state-run corporations, to guarantee a certain ratio of women employees in the public sector.

The team said that the current system does not acknowledge a legal foreign workforce and not only misinterprets the actual labor market, but also provokes human rights problems, which had brought national disgrace. In the current labor market, legally-employed industrial trainees receive less than half of the wages of illegal migrant laborers, resulting in increasing numbersseeking "illegal" jobs. Considering the tendency that foreign laborers work for a short period of time and then return to their homelands, the team suggested giving migrant workers the benefit of health care and industrial accident insurance, but excluding them from the national pension scheme and employment insurance.

Also, under the premise that women's economic activity is bound to be restricted without resolving child care issue, the team came up with a Child Care Voucher Program, where public day care centers are established and the state provides partial subsidies. With mothers increasingly giving up or delaying having children due to the lack of a child care system, the country's birth rate has fallen to the point that the current population cannot maintained.

In addition, the experts agreed that the current administration's attitude of offering political resolutions to labor-management conflicts is problematic, and suggested that by establishing an apparatus that can deal with labor issues according to law, the government can change management's tendency of avoiding labor unions. The team diagnosed that both labor and management in the monopolistic or oligopolisitc public sectors have became increasingly egocentric in the last five years, and called for the legislation of special acts on labor relations in the public sector. The administration's political handling of labor issues made the country's competitiveness one of the lowest in the world, and to improve the condition, the government should guarantee , neutrality and consistency in labor administration.

Instead of separating the labor-management relations division from the Ministry of Labor, the team proposes the next president to reform the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC), give it more muscle, and establish a labor court. While adjudication of the NLRC is time and cost-efficient, either labor or management often oppose the decision and bring the case to the courts. As the NLRC cannot force their abidance of decisions in cases of unfair dismissal or unfair labor practices, establishing a specialized labor court would make sense in this respect.

In order to strengthen the functions of the NLRC, the Ministry of Labor's work on labor-management issues should be turned over to the commission, and labor supervisors currently under the Ministry should be transferred to the NLRC. The labor supervisors should be renamed as "labor supervising arbitrators," and they should perform inclusive labor-related duties such as supervising the compliance of standard labor laws and unfair labor practices, advancing arbitration of labor conflict, and controlling industrial safety management.

Also, the Team suggested that the current arbitration requirement system, where all workplaces with labor problems must receive NLRC arbitration, should be changed to a request-based system.