Strategic Course on Mastering the Role-Based Pay Scheme – Date: Thursday, 9 November – Venue: 5th Floor Seminar Room, KEF Building – Course Offered to: HR/labor relations/general affairs managers and staff Mastering the Trade Union &Labor Relations Adjustment Act… Continue Reading
The labor and management of HiteJinro, a distiller in South Korea, is having difficulties concluding collective and wage agreements for 2017. As of 17 October, labor and management had held 20 bargaining sessions. However, management mentioned that it could not… Continue Reading
Kyungbang, a major Korean textile company, deferred its plans to move one of its factories from Gwangju. Among the company’s three factories, the Gwangju factory employs the most workers. As of June 2017, 130 of 360 production workers company-wide are… Continue Reading
Kia Motors announced that it would reduce overtime work. Perception is that the company started to reduce labor costs when the company lost the ordinary wage lawsuit, resulting in a KRW 1 trillion (USD 886 billion) cost burden. Presumably, the… Continue Reading
Paris Baguette (PB), a leading bakery franchise in Korea, is facing pressure to directly hire its dispatched workers. After an investigation of Paris Croissant, the parent company of Paris Baguette, the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) concluded that Paris… Continue Reading
What is the difference between resignation and dismissal? Once employers and employees sign an employment contract, they establish relationships with hope and anticipation; however, such relationships sometimes end up becoming complicated. Unexpected and unprepared termination of employment relationships might be… Continue Reading
1. Through outdoor rallies, two umbrella unions push forward to promote pending labor issues as social issues At the end of October, two umbrella unions plan to stage outdoor rallies to demand the government and politicians revise labor laws. On… Continue Reading