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 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies need to improve their strict top-down management structure and culture of frequent after-work drinking if they want to hire talented workers in China, a local trade association said Thursday. In a survey of 465 applicants for jobs in Korean firms operating in China, the Korea International [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Women currently working at a domestic company that has more than 100 employees were found to be getting paid 33 percent less in salary compared to their male counterparts. The National Human Rights Commission of Korea announced these results yesterday after surveying 402 permanent male and female employees who [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The plight of female secretaries working for large corporations has come under the spotlight thanks to a study conducted by grad student Park Ji Yeon at Sookmyung Women’s University. Park crafted the study using in-depth interviews she carried out with 12 secretaries who had been on the job for [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A report released Monday by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training has revealed that 29 percent of employees in South Korea have experienced sexual harassment at work in the past six months. According to the report, based on a survey of 3,000 employees from 15 industry [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s onerous corporate culture is slowly making progress. LG Uplus, one of the three major telecommunications companies in Korea, became the first IT company to implement a “PC-off” policy. As the name suggests, the policy forcibly shuts down all access to employee computers at 6:30 p.m. sharp, 30 minutes [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Survey data reveals that office workers are stressed because of English, even if they are not required to use the language frequently. Hunet, an education company, conducted a survey on 713 office workers. The results showed that 86.1 percent of the respondents were stressed because of English, with only [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of South Korean college students want to find overseas jobs, a survey showed Monday, reflecting their pessimism over the country’s ever-worsening job market and stressful life in Korea Inc. In a nationwide survey of 2,361 students from 132 universities, 59.3 percent responded they prefer overseas jobs over [...]