SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Men accounted for one-third of employees who took child care leave in the first half of this year, marking the first time the male proportion has surpassed 30 percent, labor data showed Sunday. A total of 69,631 employees received their first child care leave allowance from the national employment [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A survey of South Korean office workers has revealed that an automatic parental leave system paired with income protection during leave is viewed as the most critical labor policy needed to address the nation’s chronically low birth rates. According to the civic group Gabjil 119, which polled 1,000 office employees, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Benefits for working parents taking a leave of absence to take care of their babies will be increased to a maximum of 39 million won (US$29,981) per couple next year, the labor ministry said Tuesday. The Cabinet approved a revised Employment Insurance Act, reflecting expanded parental benefits, during a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean workers who took time off to take care of their children rose 18.6 percent in 2022 from a year earlier on the back of more government support for parental leave, government data showed Monday. A total of 131,087 workers took parental leave to take [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean plans to expand the period of parental leave of working parents from the current one year to one year and six months, the labor ministry said Monday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor also said it plans to increase the quota of foreign workers with non-professional employment [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean workers who took time off to take care of their children rose 1 percent in 2021 from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 173,631 workers took parental leave to care for their children last year, up 1,682 from 2020, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant number of parents working in Seoul haven’t taken any parental leave in fear of lagging behind the competition at work or burdening others with their workload, a survey showed Wednesday. The Seoul Foundation and Women and Family conducted a survey of 2,005 Seoul residents (1,482 women, 523 [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean workers who took parental leave in 2021 decreased year-on-year for the first time since the system was introduced in 2001, government data showed Monday. A total of 110,555 workers took time off to take care of their children last year, down 1.3 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean workers who took time off to take care of their children rose 3.7 percent in 2020 from a year earlier amid more government support for parental leave, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 169,345 workers took parental leave to take care of their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Choi Sang-min, the father of a nine-month-old baby living in the southwestern city of Gwangju, was surprised when his boss recently just signed off without ado on papers he had submitted requesting parental leave. “It was not what I’d expected. Because I heard that when a male colleague applied [...]