SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest companies have sharply increased their reliance on temporary workers over the past four years, raising questions about job stability in one of Asia’s most industrialized economies. According to data released Wednesday by CEO Score, which analyzed quarterly filings from 334 of the country’s top 500 companies [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of temporary workers in South Korea fell below 38 percent of all salaried workers in August, data showed Tuesday, as the country gradually returns to pre-pandemic normalcy. Non-regular workers, including part-timers and outsourced laborers, took up 37.5 percent of the country’s 21.72 million salaried workers, compared with [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1 out of 10 workers have experienced layoffs since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rate of those who lost jobs reaching nearly 30 percent among non-regular workers, a poll showed Sunday. The survey of 1,000 employees — 600 regular workers and 400 temporary workers [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More than three out of 10 young adults in South Korea start their careers as temporary workers, a report showed Sunday. According to a survey conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute of 2,041 men and women aged between 18-34, 63.9 percent of the respondents said that the continuous [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of temporary workers in South Korea rose to over 38 percent of all salaried workers in August in the wake of the fallout from the pandemic, data showed Tuesday. The number of non-regular workers, including part-timers and outsourced laborers, came to 8.07 million as of August, up [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An industrial safety law aimed at better ensuring safe workplaces for irregular contract workers went into effect Thursday, after public anger heightened over the 2018 death of a young subcontract worker at a thermal power plant. The Kim Yong-gyun bill was passed in December 2018, named after a 24-year-old [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of temporary workers in South Korea has risen 13.1 percent on-year this year, with the percentage of such employment also increasing, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 7.48 million workers were nonregular workers, part-timers or outsourced laborers as of August 2019, up about 870,000 from a [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of temporary workers in South Korea rose slightly this year from a year earlier, with the percentage of such employment also rising, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 6.61 million workers were non-regular workers, part-timers or outsourced laborers as of August 2018, up 36,000 from a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean court has ruled that temporary workers who held positions as car salespeople at car dealerships are guaranteed rights outlined by labor union laws. A ruling by Judge Hong Sun-uk yesterday dismissed the petition by car dealership owners to “cancel the decision to allow the labor union [...]
INCHEON, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Temporary employees at GM Korea were not included in the negotiation process between GM Korea and its labor union concerning wages. Nor were they included in the talks between GM Korea and the government on a recapitalization deal. The new deals for GM Korea did not leave the some-2,000 [...]