SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – In an unprecedented move rippling through South Korea’s healthcare system, hospitals—including the prestigious “Big 5″ medical centers in Seoul—are grappling with a dire shortage of resident physicians by instituting unpaid leave for their staff. This drastic measure, a direct fallout from a significant decrease in patient admissions and surgical procedures, [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of COVID-19 infections continues to climb, some firms are forcing unpaid leave and wage cuts on employees, a pro-labor civic group said. Gabjil 119 received 19 reports between January and March 20 involving unjust treatment at workplaces in dealing with the pandemic. The civic group has also [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — SsangYong Motor Co. said Monday its employees began to take unpaid leave in rotation as part of self-help measures. Last month, SsangYong workers agreed to the company’s offer of two-year rotational unpaid leave for 4,700 employees, an extension of a cut in wages and suspended welfare benefits until June [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of SsangYong Motor Co.’s workers will go on unpaid leave for two years beginning next month as part of self-help measures as the debt-ridden automaker is striving to speed up its sales process, the company said Monday. SsangYong said its management and labor union inked a deal on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey revealed that about a half of the healthcare workers at South Korea’s clinic-level hospitals with no patient rooms have been forced to take unpaid leave or annual paid leave due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Korean Health and Medical Workers’ Union conducted a [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s largest airline, said Thursday it will extend unpaid leave for its flight attendants in the latest move to cope with a sharp decline in air travel demand amid the spread of the coronavirus. Korean Air said all flight attendants who have worked for [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. is set to put all of its non-Korean pilots on three months of unpaid leave starting next month in a self-rescue effort amid worsening business conditions caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Under the measure, 387 pilots are expected to go on mandatory unpaid leave from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – About 300 office workers of embattled Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) will go on a month-long unpaid leave in January as part of efforts to cut costs, sources said Wednesday. They will be the first batch of DSME’s 4,700 desk-job employees who will take turns on unpaid [...]