SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Instances of workplace harassment have modestly decreased for the past three years after the implementation of a workplace anti-bullying law in 2019, a poll showed Friday, though the degree of abuse felt by the victims is still serious. According to the recent poll of 1,000 salaried workers by pollster [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Two years have passed since the so-called anti-bullying law went into effect at domestic workplaces, but there are still many loopholes in the application of the law depending on the business size or type of employment, labor experts said Sunday. Under the revision of the Labor Standards Act that [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Can workplace bullies be punished? It’s a tricky question in South Korea. A revised labor law aimed at preventing workplace bullying went into effect here on July 16 last year. But the law came with a handful of prerequisites. For one, it defines workplace harassment as “an act of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Four out of 10 South Koreans think harassment at work has decreased since a new anti-bullying law took effect in mid-July, a survey showed Tuesday. About 80 percent of the respondents to the survey by a nongovernmental organization said they want enhanced punishment of perpetrators and the expansion of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About 800 cases of workplace harassment have been reported to the labor ministry since a new law aimed at preventing harassment in the workplace took effect in July, government data showed Friday. The data, submitted by the ministry to the Environment and Labor Committee at the National Assembly, revealed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 1,000 cases of workplace bullying were reported in the month after an anti-bullying law went into effect in mid-July, a civic group focusing on the issue said Wednesday. According to Workplace Gapjil 119, 1,073 cases were reported to it by bullied workers between July 16, when the act [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one in five South Korean office workers don’t know about the country’s workplace anti-bullying law despite its implementation about a month ago, a poll showed Monday. A revised labor standards law went into effect on July 16 to help prevent harassment in the workplace. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A new law aimed at preventing harassment in the workplace took effect in South Korea on Tuesday, bringing the widespread but overlooked issue of bullying at work into the legal domain. A revised law on labor standards, commonly called the workplace anti-bullying law, went into effect after a six-month [...]