On 11 December 2017, Hyundai Motor held a press conference to announce that “The first and second tier contractors of Hyundai Motor are desperately asking the Hyundai union to cease its strikes and conclude a collective agreement.” A Subcontractors Committee… Continue Reading
Shinsegae Group announced that it will shift to a 35-hour work week from January 2018. The current statutory working hours in Korea is set at 40 hours per week. With the new work hour system, workers and executives of the… Continue Reading
SPC Group, which owns the bakery chain Paris Baguette, filed an administrative litigation on 31 October. The litigation was to nullify a corrective order from the MOEL and to suspend execution. In that corrective order, Paris Baguette was ordered by… Continue Reading
As many cases of sexual harassment at work have recently been raised, major groups and their affiliates are strengthening their efforts to prevent it and punish it when it occurs. Many companies are taking a ‘Zero Tolerance’ approach to sexual… Continue Reading
Some workers at an affiliate of Samsung have established a trade union, and attention has turned on whether workers of other Samsung affiliates will do the same. According to the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), cooks and nutritionists in… 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