SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The minor progressive Justice Party (JP) proposed a bill Thursday that would limit companies from filing compensation suits against labor unions for losses incurred during strikes. Under what is dubbed the “yellow envelope bill,” companies would be banned from filing lawsuits against labor unions and unionized workers for damages [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 45 percent of household heads over 65 years of age engaged in wage worker earn less than 1 million won (US$717) each month, data showed Wednesday. Statistics Korea reported that 44.6 percent of wage workers over 65 years of age make less than 1 million won in labor [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A Chinese national has been sentenced to 1 1/2 years behind bars for brokering applications for refugee status in South Korea based on fake religious grounds, sources said Sunday. The 58-year-old broker has been indicted for allegedly colluding with other refugee brokers in China to bring Chinese job seekers [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean flight attendants formerly employed by China Eastern Airlines Corp. who were laid off just prior to their expected promotion to regular employee status have won in a first-instance court trial. The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the 70 flight attendants who sued [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Gender inequality is still widespread in South Korean when it comes to employment and wages, the gender ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family reported that the employment rate among women stood at 51.2 percent last year, which was 18.8 percentage points lower than the male [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1 in 10 individuals working at businesses with fewer than five employees are paid less than the minimum wage, a poll showed Monday. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions conducted a survey of 470 people working at small businesses with fewer than five employees, which showed that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 40 percent of people who have reported cases of harassment at the workplace have been subject to retribution of various types, a pro-labor civic group said Monday. Gabjil 119 analyzed 1,442 tip-offs on workplace bullying cases between January and August this year in which they identified the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 5 foreign nationals staying in South Korea are illegal immigrants, with the number of undocumented immigrants rising to nearly 400,000, government data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by the Ministry of Justice, 395,068 foreigners were staying in the country without a valid visa in July, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided Wednesday to increase the quota of foreign workers with non-professional employment visas for this year by 10,000 to alleviate pandemic-induced labor shortages in shipbuilding and other major industries, officials said. The government committee on foreign workforce policy finalized the plan to issue the E-9 visa to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Most parcel delivery personnel are working under poor labor conditions, in which they have to work six days a week, a major umbrella labor group said Thursday. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions conducted a survey on the labor environment of 210 delivery service workers who are affiliated with [...]