SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The average age of civil servants at the local government level rose, and the number of female employees nearly doubled, data showed Sunday. According to data released by the Ministry of the Interior on the general statistics of civil servants in the country’s provincial governments, their average age in [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – For young Koreans, finding a job is becoming harder than ever. Paradoxically, however, some Korean companies are finding it hard to recruit new employees. Saramin, one of Korea’s major recruiting platforms, conducted a survey of 779 small and medium-sized companies. Of the 664 companies that had planned to hire [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The employment rate for women in their late 30s has reached its highest level in seven years, thanks to the widespread implementation of flextime scheduling. Flextime offers employees the freedom to choose their own workdays, and start and finish times. According to Statistics Korea Thursday, last month’s employment rate [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of self-employed South Koreans in their 30s has been on a steady rise since late last year as a prolonged economic slump forces more young people to set up one-man operations instead of finding jobs, a report showed Monday. According to the report by the Korea Labor [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of public firms introducing the government-proposed wage system based on workers’ performance is growing at a faster rate than hoped for, despite growing labor opposition that might lead to legal battles. As of Tuesday, about 70 state-run firms and public organizations out of the total 120 that [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The No. 1 local portal Naver and apparel manufacturer Hansae Co. were the most women-friendly firms in 2015 in South Korea, according to research results out Monday. The two companies were jointly rated the top in the research by Meerae Forum and CEO Score that assessed the women-men employment [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Korean women in their 50s and 60s who work selective part-time jobs has increased in the past year. A selective part-time job is a form of a temporary employment that offers the complete benefits typically received by full-time employees, such as insurance and welfare, but gives [...]
SEJONG, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The government reiterated its position to adopt a performance-based salary system in state-run companies and institutions on a wider scale by the end of this year, a finance ministry official said Monday, as part of its efforts to reform the public sector. The government has pushed forward with the [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The prolonged economic slowdown and corporate restructuring have pushed some of Korea’s top 100 listed companies to trim their workforces. According to chaebul.com, as of March 2016, the number of employees at 51 of top 100 Korean listed companies had decreased from the end of last year. The total [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 90 percent of South Korean women in their latter 30s, now economically inactive, had been previously employed, a report said Thursday, a finding that supports arguments that they are leaving the workforce to care for child and family. According to the report from the Korea Employment Information [...]