SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Company and its labor union have decided to hire more younger workers for a new electric vehicle factory in Ulsan. Employees in their 20s and 30s will make up 30 percent of the workforce. The new Ulsan EV plant, set to be completed in 2025, will have 30 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea BIzwire) — The recent collapse at a construction site in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, resulting in the deaths of two construction workers and the serious injury of four others, is attributed to the utilization of the deck plate method and hasty construction, an umbrella labor union claimed Thursday. “In the same Anseong [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor union of Kakao Corp. is seeking group action after the South Korean tech giant’s subsidiaries recently carried out voluntary retirement and restructuring. The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions’ Kakao Branch on Wednesday staged a protest in front of the Kakao headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, attended by [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s labor union has requested that management provide discount benefits for purchasing new cars not only to retirees with significant tenure at the company but to all retirees. This demand has reportedly been included in this year’s list of collective bargaining items. Every year at Hyundai, approximately [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Monday opened an online platform for renting construction equipment and for job searching and hiring operators. The platform aims to break the traditional structure in which workers must join a construction labor union affiliated with the militant umbrella organization Korean Confederation of [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — As Samsung Electronics Co. is weathering a slump in the semiconductor industry, the company plans to raise wages at a lower rate than in previous years. Industry sources said that the company proposed a base-up level of around 1 percent during its wage negotiations with the labor union. A [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s largest messenger app KakaoTalk, are joining the labor union to protest the company’s recent announcement that all employees should come to the office for work, instead of working from home. The members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions Kakao [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Unionized workers at GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of General Motors Co., have indicated that they would like to be able to purchase GM cars based on a price set on the date of the contract, with prolonged delays in car shipments and rising car prices. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s management and its union signed an annual wage deal Wednesday, the first of its kind since the company’s foundation more than five decades ago. The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker and its union reached an agreement on a 9 percent pay raise for 2022 [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean branch of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Friday said it has decided to begin mediation procedures between Chanel Korea’s labor union and management over the company’s alleged violation of labor acts and human rights. In December last year, employees of the French luxury [...]