SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has revealed that nearly 6 out of 10 irregular workers in South Korea are not receiving paid leave on national holidays, a benefit guaranteed by the country’s labor laws. The findings were announced on April 28 by the civic group Gabjil 119, which commissioned a poll of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Employers have resorted to hiring irregular workers to minimize uncertainty in the pandemic era, a study showed Monday. The Korea Labour and Society Institute analyzed data provided by Statistics Korea to show that the number of wage workers reached 20.99 million people in August of this year, up by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — About one-third of South Korean working mothers with underage children were irregular workers paid lower wages, data showed Friday, underscoring the reality that taking time off to raise children is harming many women’s career prospects. A total of 641,000 female contract workers had kids under 18 as of April [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The wage gap between regular and irregular workers in South Korea is widening despite an overall increase wages, new government data has revealed. According to data revealed by the Ministry of Employment and Labor on Sunday, irregular workers earned 44.8 percent of what regular workers earned every month in 2017. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The government’s ‘zero irregular workers’ initiative has come to fruition for the first time, as the Incheon International Airport Corporation has decided to give 30 percent of its irregular workers permanent employment status. The Moon administration’s push to expand the number of regular workers in the public sector has enjoyed [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Around a third of workers at South Korea’s public organizations are irregular employees, data showed Sunday, with President Moon Jae-in vowing to turn them into full-time positions within his five-year term. According to the government’s All Public Information in One (ALIO) information portal, irregular employees numbered 144,205, 33.6 percent of the 429,402 workers at 335 public organizations under the government as of end-March. In 89 organizations, irregulars took up more than 50 percent of the [...]