occupational diseases Archives

Samsung Electronics Establishes Fund to Combat Leukemia

SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics has announced that they will accept the recommendations from mediation related to occupational diseases that occur on semiconductor manufacturing lines. The company will create an in-house fund of 100 billion won, and use the money for compensation and research to prevent the disease. In addition, employees of their subcontractors [...]

Samsung to Compensate All Qualified Leukemia Victims

SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will compensate all victims related to leukemia and other occupational diseases as long as they are qualified under certain standards. The company said this on October 21 on its official blog “Samsung Tomorrow” in a message titled “Ahead of the founding of the dispute mediation committee.” Samsung continued, [...]