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Korean employers' federation whose policy paper argues that Honam plant construction and personnel deployment are not subjects for collective bargaining and that guidelines should say so explicitly.
Korea Enterprises Federation survey finds 40.3% of 62 firms say labor commission rulings do not follow the Yellow Envelope law or the ministry's guidelines. The same federation is asking for amended law, and the sample is small.
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South Korea's National Assembly voted to let the labor minister fine firms with three or more worker deaths in a year up to 5% of operating profit. How much a company pays will be set case by case under subordinate regulations the labor ministry says it will now revise.
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The Korea Enterprises Federation credits electronics and telecommunications, 2.4% of the country's regular workers, with 32.4% of the first-half increase in monthly pay, and without the sector the average rose 2.2% instead of 3.1%.
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Seoul says building a plant is management's business while the reassignment of the engineers who would run it can be bargained over, which turns a construction schedule into a date a union can renegotiate.
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Samsung and SK hynix are due to break ground in July next year and finish in 2029, and the engineers who stabilise early yields would have to move out of greater Seoul, which is exactly the reassignment the revised law now puts in play.
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