SEJONG, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s minimum wage council begins deliberations this year to set the wage floor for 2025, labor representatives are pushing to extend minimum pay protections to gig workers and freelancers, a move that could upend compensation practices across a widening swath of the economy. At the first plenary meeting [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – In a recent survey conducted by HR tech company Incruit’s gig worker platform ‘NewWorker,’ gig workers expressed high levels of satisfaction with the service. The survey, carried out from the February 8 to 12, involved 378 individuals who had taken on gig work through NewWorker in the past year. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Subcontractors and freelancers saw their incomes drop by an average of 69.1 percent in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Monday. The labor ministry said it conducted a partial survey of the nearly 1.7 million workers who received emergency employment relief funds from the state [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the platform workers who work through digital platforms like the car-hailing service Tada were found to receive supervision from platform service providers. The Korea Labor Institute said in a recent report that 53.5 percent of platform workers said they are subject to orders or restrictions [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Most freelance workers in South Korea are poorly paid, with almost 50 percent earning less than the minimum wage. According to a survey conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the average monthly income among freelancers stood at 1.529 million won, falling just short of 1.57 million won, the monthly income [...]