# National Assembly passes the Yellow Envelope labour-law amendments Date: 2025 ## The fact On 24 August 2025 the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) passed amendments to Articles 2 and 3 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Adjustment Act — the Yellow Envelope bill — 183 to 3, expanding the employer definition toward principal contractors and limiting some damages claims against strikes, with effect in March 2026 after a grace period. Yoon had vetoed earlier versions. ## Context DP majority sat as parent. Neighbouring five-year plan is a neighbour. He did not sit as every chaebol HR office. A labour statute is still ordinary Assembly enactment the president’s majority delivered. Five-year plan 13 August is a neighbouring agenda. Coupons July are a neighbouring household instrument. Chaebol boards share later bargaining. The President of the Republic of Korea is head of state and of the executive, appoints the prime minister with National Assembly consent, and commands the armed forces. The National Assembly enacts statutes. The Bank of Korea sets the policy rate. Courts, including the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court, judge. Chaebol boards, US Forces Korea, and provincial governments share later series. A Seongnam mayoral youth dividend or debt moratorium is not a 2025 statute. A criminal case must be stored with exact charge and judgment status — an allegation, indictment, first-instance finding, appellate acquittal, Supreme Court remand, or Article 84 stay is not a completed conviction if appealed, overturned, or pending. He did not author Yoon Suk Yeol’s 3 December 2024 martial-law decree. ## Evidence and sources National Assembly of the Republic of Korea carries the official instrument or communique. The Korea Herald records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness) and protection of minority (subcontract) rights: a completed labour statute after two Yoon vetoes. ## What is established and what is not Established: 24 August 2025 Assembly passage, independently reported. Not established: a unique later strike-day coefficient from that Sunday, or that every subcontractor was thereby reclassified that hour. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. His party majority delivered a bill Yoon had vetoed. He owned the labour weather. Courts will apply tests. Employers bargain.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies National Assembly passes the Yellow Envelope labour-law amendments, not a later speech about National Assembly passes the Yellow Envelope labour-law amendments. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. National Assembly passes the Yellow Envelope labour-law amendments on 2025-08-24 is not a licence to treat every later National Assembly of the Republic of Korea communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average National Assembly passes the Yellow Envelope labour-law amendments into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Assembly enacted. His party majority delivered a bill Yoon had vetoed. He owned the labour weather. Courts will apply tests. Employers bargain. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lee Jae Myung: https://factrail.ai/people/lee-jae-myung ## Drivers - Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights ## Sources - https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10564042 - https://www.assembly.go.kr/portal/main/main.do ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kr-lee-yellow-envelope-2025