SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With the job outlook increasingly bleak for young Koreans, more than half of new job seekers are willing to accept an offer of employment even if they are not regular workers or even non-regular workers such as interns or contract workers. According to the survey of 2,816 job seekers [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 10 percent of full-time workers in South Korea consider themselves as nonregular employees because of poor working conditions, a report said Monday. According to the report by the Korea Labor Institute, 10.7 percent of South Korea’s regular workers believe they are temporary employees owing to long work [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of temporary workers in South Korea rose in August from a year earlier as more elderly people joined the workforce, government data showed Wednesday. The economic active population report by Statistics Korea showed the number of temporary workers rising by 194,000 on-year to a little more than [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – In a forum discussing the implications of the upcoming change in minimum wage rules applicable to security guards, discussants from advocacy groups said the measure may backfire and some apartment management firms may decide to cut back on their payrolls instead of raising the maintenance fees. People’s Solidarity for [...]
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SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s non-regular workers are hopeless to become a permanent employee. The latest OECD Employment Outlook 2014 showed that one to two contract workers out of ten can win a permanent status in a year. Seven are still under fixed-term contracts and even two become unemployed. It means that the [...]