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 [...]
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 [...]