Factors Factors Influencing the Awareness of Labor Rights of Elderly People Participating in Senior Job Programs

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of labor rights elements(safety and health, freedom of occupational choice, employment promotion and fair wages, right to education) on the perception of labor rights guarantee from the perspective of elderly people participating in senior job programs, and to seek alternatives for strengthening the labor rights of elderly people. To this end, multiple regression analysis was conducted using SPSS 28.0 on the response data of 339 elderly people who participated in the ‘Job Type’ of the Elderly Job Creation Project. The results of the study are as follows. First, the elderly people who participated had a relatively high level of awareness of labor rights. Second, the individual right ‘safety and health’ was found to have an effect on the elderly people who participated in the project. Third, the social rights of ‘employment promotion and fair wages’ and ‘education rights’ were confirmed to have an effect on the participants’ perception of labor rights guarantee. In particular, the right to education was found to be the most important core factor that actually contributed to the perception of labor rights guarantee. Fourth, the control variable ‘whether or not human rights education’ was found to have an effect on the elderly participants’ perception of labor rights guarantee.Based on these results, practical and policy implications were presented regarding social efforts to realize the labor rights of the participating elderly, raising awareness of the rights of the elderly, establishing a labor rights protection management system, and establishing a labor rights education system.