SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) —Nurses are protesting against President Yoon Seok-yeol’s veto of a controversial bill that would define the roles and responsibilities of nurses, expressing concerns about potential disruptions to the public healthcare system. On Wednesday, the Korean Nurses Association (KNA) announced their intention to engage in a so-called “work-to-rule” campaign. They plan [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of jobs for people in their 40s in South Korea decreased for the 10th consecutive month in April, data showed Sunday, amid the protracted slump in the country’s manufacturing industry. Jobs for the age group have been falling on-year since July, with the positions decreasing 22,000 from [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s unionized workers said Friday they will bring a labor dispute with the tech giant to the state labor relations commission for arbitration. “Despite record high earnings, the management has dismissed the unions’ demands all the time, citing business difficulties,” Samsung’s four unions said. “At every wage [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) —Google Korea employees formed a labor union affiliated with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) on April 11, after Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced a 6% reduction in its total workforce, affecting about 12,000 people based at its headquarters. Earlier this month, Google Korea informed its employees in South [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Monday opened an online platform for renting construction equipment and for job searching and hiring operators. The platform aims to break the traditional structure in which workers must join a construction labor union affiliated with the militant umbrella organization Korean Confederation of [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — With the exposé of foreigners living in harsh environments following news reports of various incidents, local governments and authorities are stepping up to come up with preventive measures. Last Monday, four young Nigerian siblings were killed in a fire that engulfed a three-story residential building in Ansan, south of [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy surrounding the removal of a memorial banner has shed light on the issue of workplace bullying and classism in South Korean society. The banner, which was hung at an apartment complex in Seoul to commemorate a security guard who took his own life due to workplace abuse, was [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung Electronics Co. is weathering a slump in the semiconductor industry, the company plans to raise wages at a lower rate than in previous years. Industry sources said that the company proposed a base-up level of around 1 percent during its wage negotiations with the labor union. A [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed the government on Tuesday to review its proposed reform of the 52-hour workweek system by paying particular close attention to the opinions of young generations, his office said. Under the reform measures announced by the labor ministry last week, companies will be allowed to [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The global downturn in the chip industry is cooling down the temporary labor market around Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor campus in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers south of Seoul, which is now under construction. The population of Pyeongtaek stood at 573,987 last year, rising by 27.5 percent over seven years from 450,532 in 2015 [...]