A bill which bans companies from outsourcing hazardous jobs to contractors in principle was passed. This was due to an incident where a 24-year-old contract worker was found dead in …
A bill which bans companies from outsourcing hazardous jobs to contractors in principle was passed. This was due to an incident where a 24-year-old contract worker was found dead in …
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea recommended to the Minister of the Employment and Labour to ratify ILO Convention N. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the …
This article discusses the first labor union formed at Samsung Electronics. It also discusses an investigation of Samsung Electronics for the company’s alleged anti-union activities. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180531000881
This article discusses a large taxi driver strike who were protesting against a carpooling service similar to Uber. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kakao-taxi/angry-south-korean-taxi-drivers-strike-against-carpooling-service-idUSKCN1OJ0US Related articles: http://m.labortoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=154551 http://m.labortoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=155634
This article discusses South Korea’s Supreme Court’s decision upholding a lower court’s ruling ordering Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan to compensate South Koreans who were forced into labor at their …
Samsung Electronics made an official apology and vowed to compensate workers for work-related illnesses such as leukemia from its local chips and display factory. This has been a long dispute …
The South Korean government did not recognize a single refugee in its second review of hundreds of Yemeni asylum seekers who applied for status after arriving on Jeju Island. The government …
This is a court decision involving the calculation of average wage at a public institution. If the bonus is continuously and regularly paid and the conditions for the bonus are …
South Korean prosecutors indicted the board chairman of Samsung Electronics Co. on charges of illegally cracking down on a labor union, delivering another legal blow to the world’s largest chipmaker. Prosecutors in …
This article discusses a study which shows the housing status of migrant women workers in Korea and how it is vulnerable to sexual harassment and violence. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180910000855