SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — With the coronavirus outbreak in South Korea showing signs of containment, major mobile carriers are transitioning from work-from-home to flexible commuting policies. The country’s top three telecommunication firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — decided they cannot sustain business based on work-from-home policies, which [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The social distancing movement that is seen as a significant measure in the fight against the novel coronavirus is changing the landscape of work environments as more companies are implementing ‘untact’ working procedures. Lotte Home Shopping Inc., a shopping unit of retail conglomerate Lotte, is implementing untact working procedures [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one in three employees at South Korea’s sports-related organizations have suffered workplace harassment, such as verbal abuse, the nation’s human rights watchdog said Saturday, citing its recent poll. According to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), its poll of 1,378 employees at three major sports [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — One in five workers in the IT sector has been bullied or witnessed bullying at work, according to a recent survey. Out of 1,364 IT workers surveyed, 265 or 19.4 percent said they had experienced or witnessed bullying at work, according to findings released Tuesday by the Federation of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one in five South Korean office workers don’t know about the country’s workplace anti-bullying law despite its implementation about a month ago, a poll showed Monday. A revised labor standards law went into effect on July 16 to help prevent harassment in the workplace. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The new legislation that came into effect on Tuesday that prohibits harassment in the workplace is expected by many to put a stop to verbal abuse, ostracism, and other malpractices. The controversy over what constitutes harassment in the workplace, however, is likely to continue. For instance, asking male employees [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A new law aimed at preventing harassment in the workplace took effect in South Korea on Tuesday, bringing the widespread but overlooked issue of bullying at work into the legal domain. A revised law on labor standards, commonly called the workplace anti-bullying law, went into effect after a six-month [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees at department stores and duty-free shops took to the streets claiming their right to use the restrooms at their workplaces normally reserved for customers. The Korean Federation of Service Workers’ Unions held a press conference at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) on Monday, claiming that [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent data shows that 8 out of 100 employees in the public service or at private companies in South Korea have suffered from sexual harassment at work. However, of the total victims, more than 80 percent suffered the harassment in silence and did nothing about it. According to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A revision of the Labor Standards Act, which prohibits bullying in the workplace, was proclaimed Tuesday, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said. The revised law specifically bans bullying from people in more senior positions, the ministry said. It defines the prohibited workplace bullying as an act by an [...]