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economy is generally difficult, including self-employed people who are struggling like this, but there are also large companies that did well last year.

Incentives are also being paid while exceeding management goals, and controversy is rising that the standards are not transparent or fall short of other company incentives.



Reporter Han Ji-yeon reports.



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controversy over performance pay started at SK Hynix at the end of last month.



When the incentives were announced as 20% of the annual salary, complaints came out saying that even though the performance improved significantly, it was only half that of its rival Samsung Electronics.



The controversy ended when Chairman Tae-won Choi announced that he would return 3 billion won in annual salary and that the labor and management would additionally pay 200% of the basic salary through consultation, and link the incentives to operating profit.



However, complaints are spreading to other companies.



SK Telecom raised the same issue and the union declared a struggle, and the semiconductor division of Samsung Electronics made more than half of its operating profit, and complaints arose that the incentive paid was less than that of other divisions.



LG Energy Solutions employees, which were spin-off from LG Chem, are also protesting for similar reasons.



Incentives are not disclosed to the outside due to different standards for each company, such as performance, corporate value, and stock price.



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not the Labor Standards Act, the target was determined by the company's practice of discretion.



[Namtaek Cho/Attorney: (Performance pay) is something that the company can pay at its discretion, so it would be difficult to see that the company has any legal obligations for it.]



Young employees who focus on practicality and value fair and transparent procedures. Some analyzes say that they are resisting the unilateral practice of not communicating.



(Video coverage: Gong Jin-gu, video editing: Park Ki-deok)