SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The special investigative panel recommended Monday that power plant operators end the practice of outsourcing major maintenance work to subcontractors, completing a probe into the death of a young contract worker. Kim Yong-gyun, a 24-year-old contract worker, was killed in a conveyor belt accident in December last year at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Officials from the government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) agreed Tuesday to conduct an investigation into the death of a young contract worker at a thermal power plant in December, party officials said. Kim Yong-gyun, a 24-year-old subcontract worker, was killed in a conveyor belt accident in mid-December [...]
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SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s non-regular workers are hopeless to become a permanent employee. The latest OECD Employment Outlook 2014 showed that one to two contract workers out of ten can win a permanent status in a year. Seven are still under fixed-term contracts and even two become unemployed. It means that the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of contract workers or temporary employees who are not guaranteed basic insurance benefits in Korea’s top-20 companies has surged last year while the number of full-time workers stayed at the same level. According to business planning reports from the local top-20 corporations, the total number of contract [...]