<Anchor> The
Labor Standards Act, which guarantees workers' rights, does not apply to workplaces with less than 5 employees.
There are even companies that disguised themselves as'fake businesses with less than 5 employees' by exploiting this point, and a labor organization has accused about 10 places with such suspicion.
This is reporter Jeon Hyeong-woo.
<Reporter> At a
plastic factory in Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do, more than 100 people, including foreign workers, were collectively infected with Corona 19 in February.
Afterwards, ten workers asked for help, claiming that they were unfairly fired from this factory, and in the process, a labor organization found suspicious points.
The plastics company's president directly directed and supervised the contract, but the contract was signed with H, who had never seen it, and the contract was supposed to work daytime only while only working at night.
The labor organization suspicious of breaking the Labor Standards Act by proposing a ghost contractor because the address of the company and company H are the same, and accused the company.
[Company official: Because the business is closed due to corona.
It's being investigated.
The criteria for judging is probably the labor inspector.]
Mr. A, who operates 13 mobile phone sales companies nationwide, has each business site with less than 5 employees, each with an acquaintance as a representative.
[Ex-employee of a mobile phone vendor: I created a business site with the name of someone else and my family, not my own name.
Each workplace said there were fewer than 5 employees and did not pay overtime pay and annual allowance.]
A bill was proposed last year to apply the Labor Standards Act to companies with fewer than five employees, but it is still pending in the National Assembly.