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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies on average spent 5.34 million won (US$4,584) each month to hire one worker in 2019, up 2.8 percent from the previous year, the labor ministry said Wednesday. The figure, which includes monthly salary, severance pay, insurance fees and miscellaneous costs, came from data collected from companies [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — About eight months into the coronavirus pandemic, approximately 4 in 10 salaried employees in South Korea suffered a decline in their incomes and an increase in depression, while over 15 percent of them either lost or quit their jobs, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,000 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 3 in 4 businesswomen are struggling to maintain a work-life balance, a recent study revealed. The Women Economic Research Lab conducted a study of 648 businesses owned or run by women, in which nearly 75.2 percent respondents agreed when asked if they were struggling with maintaining a [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to put all working citizens under employment insurance coverage by 2025 as part of its ambitious policy project aimed at overcoming the new coronavirus pandemic, the labor minister said Monday. With the plan, some 21 million people are forecast to be covered by the state employment [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Education attainment plays a significant role in one’s inability to work due to health issues, according to a recent study. A research team led by Prof. Kang Mo-yeol and Jeong Ji-yoon from the Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital analyzed National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean workers and entrepreneurs are being permitted to bypass strict entry bans on foreigners to travel to South Asian countries where the coronavirus is rapidly spreading. Despite the rampant spread of the virus in the region, South Korean workers and entrepreneurs are accepting the risk in order to [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Scorching summer temperatures can be a serious risk to industrial workers. With this in mind, the government is working on initiatives to protect industrial workers from the summer heat. According to the Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency (KOSHA) on Monday, the number of industrial workers who suffered from [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of South Korean employees for the U.S. Forces Korea returned to work Monday following months of unpaid leave, after Seoul and Washington agreed upon a wage deal amid their stalled defense-cost sharing negotiations. More than 4,000 South Korean workers had been on the furlough since April 1, as [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to dwindling income following the coronavirus outbreak, self-employed business owners as well as wage workers are being driven to work two jobs, a recent survey revealed. Incruit, an online job portal, conducted a survey of 1,599 men and women with recent experience looking for a part-time job, 13.5 [...]