SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has uncovered widespread discriminatory practices against temporary and part-time employees at major financial institutions, including banks, credit card companies, and credit bureaus. In a labor inspection spanning 35 firms during the first quarter, the Ministry of Employment and Labor found a total of 185 violations pertaining [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Bank A covers meal and transportation expenses for employees working eight hours a day but doesn’t provide this for those working seven hours and thirty minutes a day. Bank B mandates that only non-regular workers arrive at work earlier. Securities firm C refused to pay a 190 million won allowance [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of non-regular workers in South Korea inched down in 2023 as the country lost temporary contracts mainly in the construction and retail sectors amid an economic slowdown, data showed Tuesday. The number of non-regular workers, including people working part-time and on temporary contracts and outsourced laborers, came [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of temporary workers in South Korea fell below 38 percent of all salaried workers in August, data showed Tuesday, as the country gradually returns to pre-pandemic normalcy. Non-regular workers, including part-timers and outsourced laborers, took up 37.5 percent of the country’s 21.72 million salaried workers, compared with [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of non-regular workers who are forced to continue their work despite suspected COVID-19 infections is more than twice that of regular workers, a survey showed Wednesday. Gabjil 119, a pro-labor civic organization, and the Public Workers Solidarity Foundation conducted a survey of 2,000 employees, in which 43.7 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of temporary workers in South Korea rose to over 38 percent of all salaried workers in August in the wake of the fallout from the pandemic, data showed Tuesday. The number of non-regular workers, including part-timers and outsourced laborers, came to 8.07 million as of August, up [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Non-regular workers have been hit harder by the economic fallout from the new coronavirus pandemic than regular workers, a survey showed Saturday. In a survey on 1,000 salaried workers aged 19 or above conducted from March 17-23 by pollster Embrain Public, 18.6 percent said they experienced unemployment since COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the South Korean job market has been felt most severely among non-regular workers. The civic group Workplace Gapjil 119 conducted surveys of 1,000 salaried workers four times last year. The share of those who experienced job loss stood at 5.5 percent in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Non-regular workers in the public sector staged a general strike nationwide on Wednesday under the orchestration of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a militant labor umbrella group. About 26,000 of some 200,000 non-regular public employees affiliated with the KCTU took part in the strike scheduled to continue [...]