SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — While conglomerate employees have always had complaints about bonus payments, the issue has once again reached a head after this year’s raging disputes between management and labor unions have spotlighted the importance of rewarding systems and internal communication. While SK hynix Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 chipmaker, took the [...]
INCHEON, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – An employee at a convenience store in Incheon recently experienced a ‘food terror attack’ by a customer who visited the store around midnight. After buying milk and a sandwich, the customer started eating them in the corner of the store. Since the government has upgraded the social distancing rule [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The average annual labor income peaked at the age of 45 for South Korean workers in 2017, while those aged 59 began spending more than they earned, data showed Monday. People aged 45 saw their annual average labor income hit 33.54 million won (US$31,000) per person in 2017 during [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean university graduates who land white-collar jobs at large corporations are paid an average of about 33 million won (US$29,700) in annual starting salary as of June this year, government data showed Thursday. According to the data released by the labor ministry, local companies with more than 500 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog on Tuesday called for the mandatory training of nursing home workers against human rights abuses of elderly patients. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea said it has advised the health minister to come up with legal provisions on human rights training for the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Salaried employees in South Korea work for 8.05 hours on average per work day and take an average of 8.25 days off per month, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,000 workers aged between 19 and 55 by local pollster Embrain Public, 811 respondents said they [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people working in the restaurant and hotel sectors dropped by 165,000 last month from a year earlier due to a resurgence of the coronavirus, government data showed Thursday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor said the number of people employed in facility management, which includes the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. is tightening discipline at its production lines by taking a string of disciplinary actions against delinquent employees. The carmaker announced on Wednesday that it had fired one of two workers at its plant in Asan, South Chungcheong Province who frequently left work without providing appropriate notice [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Although child care leave was introduced by the country more than 30 years ago, the rate of workers who use such leave at private companies is still significantly lower than that of civil servants, a lawmaker said on Saturday, citing recent official data. A total of 4.5 percent, or [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Access to paid or sick leave is no more than a pipe dream for many workers in South Korea, despite the fact that such time off is guaranteed under the law. According to a survey conducted by civil group Workplace Gapjil 119 of 1,000 salaried people aged between 19 [...]