By Sunny Lee, on May 20th, 2008%
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?
By Sunny Lee, on May 20th, 2008%
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
By Sunny Lee, on May 20th, 2008%
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
By Sunny Lee, on May 6th, 2008%
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
By Sunny Lee, on April 28th, 2008%
The labor standards act of Korea has a chapter named “labor contract”. In my opinion, it is not much of help when one actually tries to draft a labor contract, but it offers some points to remember not to violate law. Continue reading Labor contract under the labor standards act