FAIRニュースレター
We select the labor issues arising in Korea that HR teams at foreign-invested companies should know about, and set them out from the perspective of the statute and of day-to-day practice.
- 2026年9月号
営業利益連動の成果給要求、政府が交渉の基準を示しました
On 3 September 2026 the Ministry of Employment and Labor issued its “Enforcement Guidelines on Management Performance Bonuses and Other Subjects of Labor Disputes.” The Guidelines state that a bonus demand linked at a fixed ratio to company profit — such as revenue, operating profit or net income — is difficult to regard as a mandatory subject of bargaining or a subject of mediation and industrial action. We set out what foreign-invested companies running global compensation plans should check.
詳しく見る - 2026年8月号
元請も下請組合の団体交渉の相手方となり得ます
With the amended Trade Union Act effective 10 March 2026, a principal contractor that does not hold the employment contract may still be recognized as an employer under the Act, within the scope of the working conditions it substantially and concretely controls and determines. Here is what global companies using subcontracted or outsourced labor should check now.
詳しく見る - 2026年7月号
外資系企業の労働問題が政治課題になりました
A controversy over personnel measures taken toward an employee returning from parental leave reached a presidential comment, and the Ministry of Employment and Labor has opened an investigation. We set out how the labor practices of foreign-invested companies are assessed in Korea, and what HR should be checking now.
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