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Asiana Airlines Wins Bitter Legal Battle over Ordinary Wage

Asiana Airlines Wins Bitter Legal Battle over Ordinary Wage

SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines barely reversed the verdict on an ordinary wage lawsuit filed by its laborers, but it cannot smile as the court revealed its poor financial status. According to airline industry watchers on September 3, the Seoul High Court sided with Asiana Airlines, reversing a lower court’s ruling that regular [...]

Court Partially Sides with Hyundai Union over Ordinary Pay

Court Partially Sides with Hyundai Union over Ordinary Pay

SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court ruled Friday that the country’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. should partially count regular bonuses paid to its employees as part of their “ordinary wages.” Twenty-three members of Hyundai’s union filed a lawsuit in March 2013, demanding that the management include bonuses, transportation and vacation stipends [...]

Ssangyong Motor Management Offers to Include 800% Bonus as Ordinary Wages

Ssangyong Motor Management Offers to Include 800% Bonus as Ordinary Wages

SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the lead of GM Korea, the management of Ssangyong Motor has also proposed to the labor union that it would include regular bonuses as “ordinary wages.” It remains to be seen whether this will be adopted in other car makers and all other manufacturing firms. Unions have long demanded [...]