SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 10 office workers has been asked out consistently at work whether they like it or not, a survey showed Sunday. A pro-labor civic group Gabjil 119 conducted a nationwide online survey of 1,000 office workers, 11 percent of whom said they had been asked out by colleagues [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — All workplaces employing a certain number of regular employees are now required to offer rest facilities, the labor ministry said Tuesday. The Cabinet approved a revision to the enforcement ordinance of the Occupational Safety and Health Act that stipulates the range of workplaces required to comply with rest facility [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. has been named as the most desirable company to work for by college students for the second straight year. Job search portal JobKorea conducted a survey of 1,106 college students, 15.3 percent of whom picked Kakao as the company that they [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of civic organizations whose purpose is to protect the rights of migrant workers said Monday they are carrying out a signature-collecting campaign until Aug. 15 to guarantee migrant workers’ rights to change workplaces. The civic groups claim that a significant number of migrant workers in South Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Two years have passed since the so-called anti-bullying law went into effect at domestic workplaces, but there are still many loopholes in the application of the law depending on the business size or type of employment, labor experts said Sunday. Under the revision of the Labor Standards Act that [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a nationwide inspection of manufacturing workplaces with foreign employees to check if they are properly following the anti-virus guidelines amid a series of cluster infections reported at such facilities, officials said Sunday. On Thursday, the Ministry of Employment and Labor began the inspection on some [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government revealed yesterday plans to initiate an anti-smoking “at your doorstep” campaign in which health professionals will visit corporations with over 300 employees to help smokers kick the habit. This would be the first time an anti-campaign is to be instigated at offices of business entities. [...]
SEOUL, Nov.26 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom and Facebook Korea have been selected by their employees as the best workplaces in Korea. On November 25, Job Planet and Fortune Korea held a ceremony to present awards to the companies selected as the best places to work. The companies were selected through anonymous interviews of current [...]