More than 100 days have passed since the strike at Allianz Life Insurance started. Last week, management of the company fired 87 branch managers for participating in illegal strike when they are supposed to side with management as senior managers. Continue reading Can branch managers join a labor union?
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Dismissal is one of the inevitable elements of human resource management. An employer can lessen a possible adverse impact of dismissal by complying with legal requirements dismissal. Continue reading Basic legal requirements for dismissal in Korea The Ministry of Labor announced that age discrimination in recruitment and hiring will be banned from March 2009. Continue reading Age discrimination to be banned from March 2009 While running through past news on labor issues, I found an article by Yonhap News on Hyundai Motor’s move to build overseas plants and a response from its labor union that is famous for repeated strike for the last decade or so. Continue reading Hyundai Motor’s case Korea began to adopt 40 hour workweek from July 1st, 2004 based on the revised Labor Standards Act (LSA). The revised law, in order to alleviate possible increase in cost for employer, determined a gradual schedule for implementation of 40 hour workweek depending on the size of companies rather than applying the system to every company at the same time. Continue reading On 40 hour workweek of Korea |
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