SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Employment and Labor said Monday it will issue a legislative notice on a partial amendment of the enforcement ordinance to increase the number of labor providers benefiting under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act from the current 800,000 to more than 1.7 million. Under the revision [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Platform workers and cab drivers earned less than the minimum hourly wage last year, a labor group said Monday. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions conducted a survey of 600 platform laborers which showed that their monthly income jumped from 2,995,000 won (US$2,305) when social distancing measures were still [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of platform workers in South Korea is estimated to have increased to 2.2 million, accounting for 8.5 percent of the nation’s total employment, a government report said Thursday. Platform workers refer to individuals who provide specific services to customers through the medium of online platforms, such as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A mutual benefit association has been established to protect delivery personnel and other platform laborers. The Federation of Korean Trade Unions held an inauguration ceremony for the Labor Aid Association for Korean Platform Freelancers on Tuesday at its office in Seoul’s Yeouido district. The association will now be in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the platform workers who work through digital platforms like the car-hailing service Tada were found to receive supervision from platform service providers. The Korea Labor Institute said in a recent report that 53.5 percent of platform workers said they are subject to orders or restrictions [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Very widely used mobile app services are based on so-called “platform labor,” or new forms of labor that are traded like products based on information and communication technology (ICT) platforms. However, the public’s awareness of platform labor is significantly low. According to a survey of 1,000 citizens conducted by [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — As On Demand and Online to Offline service platforms are increasingly replacing taxi, delivery, chauffeur, and other services, many are starting to call on the need to treat On Demand and online-to-offline (O2O) service workers as laborers, instead of private businesses. However, due to the outdated legislative tradition that [...]