SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual growth rate of involuntary part-time workers in the past decade has exceeded that of overall wage workers, a private think tank said. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) analyzed data provided by Statistics Korea, revealing that the number of individuals compelled to work part-time increased by 2.5 [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Part-time employees are sharing their concerns online after the government lifted the outdoor mask mandate on Monday. “We still need to ask customers to wear a mask indoors, right?” one of the part-time job workers said. “A lot of people come to the place I work at. My mouth will blister [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Slightly over 1 in 5 part-timers in South Korea receive less hourly pay than the nation’s minimum wage, a poll showed Friday. According to the survey of 5,654 part-time workers taken by Albamon, a recruitment website for part-timers, 21.2 percent of the respondents said their hourly wage hovers below [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey has revealed that 1 out of 3 part-time workers in Seoul have experienced sexual harassment. This is according to a study conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) and two part-time job portals that surveyed 6,722 part-time workers last month. The SMG said that 85 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey has found nearly 1 in 5 South Korean part-time workers are getting paid less than the nation’s minimum wage. According to the results of a survey conducted by part time job search portal Alba Heaven, over 20 percent of respondents worked for an hourly wage that was [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of part-time workers expect they will be replaced by kiosks due to the rise in minimum wage, with those working at restaurants and cafes expressing the most concern, a portal survey said Tuesday. Alba, a portal for job seekers, asked 644 members between July 27 and Aug. [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean part-time workers saw their hourly wage jump more than 11 percent on-year in the first quarter to exceed the legal floor of 5,580 won (US$5.19), a poll showed Monday. The average hourly wage of part-timers came to 6,910 won in the January-March period, up 11.3 percent from [...]
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SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – As Lee Ga-youn, a college student who used to work in a McDonald’s until her sudden layoff, filed for mediation with the Seoul National Labor Relations Commission, the issue of part-time workers and their abysmal treatment in the service workplace has come to the fore. She was given [...]