<Anchor> The
Supreme Court has ruled that Hyundai Wia, a parts company affiliated with Hyundai Motor, should directly hire in-house subcontracted non-regular workers. As Hyundai Wia directly or indirectly gave work-related instructions to them and it was recognized as illegal dispatch, the company believed that they should hire them directly. Several other companies are proceeding with similar lawsuits and are awaiting judgment.
Reporter Hyung-woo Jeon reports.
<Reporter> After a
seven-year lawsuit, the final judgment was made that Hyundai Wia should directly hire the employees of the company dispatched to the company.
[Kim Young-il/Hyundai Wia Union Pyeongtaek Branch Chairman: Giving hope and courage to non-regular workers who are living in the yoke of discrimination, even if they work in the same way, even if they work in harsher conditions (this is a judgment)]
Direct direction of Woncheong ·As the Supreme Court's judgment that the existence of an order corresponds to an illegal dispatch, it is expected to affect the appeals trials of Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors, POSCO, and GM Korea, which are competing on similar issues.
[Jung-Woo Jang / Head of Labor Policy Headquarters at the Korea Federation of Economy and Industry: Because we are imposing strong regulations that do not meet global standards, such as a total ban on dispatch to manufacturing. (This judgment) is concerned that the impact will be very large.]
Companies are struggling to come up with countermeasures.
Hyundai Steel, which lost in the first and second trials and is about to be sentenced by the Supreme Court, offered to hire non-regular workers from subcontractors as regular workers at its subsidiaries and offered 80% of the original wage.
Hyundai Wia, which lost its defeat, is also reviewing countermeasures, including hiring full-time employees at subsidiaries.
Instead of direct employment, which is burdensome, it is going to follow the public sector examples such as Incheon International Airport Corporation, but the labor community is also opposed to this plan.
[Kim, Yu - Jeong / Metal Workers Law won Lawyer: (company) takes a decision, rather than forming a direct employment relationship with compulsory (hired by a subsidiary) have no choice but to assess that measures to avoid the application of pagyeonbeop -
direct action by the ruling The 67 employees who pay the fee are immediately hired directly, but other dispatched employees will have to go through a separate lawsuit.
(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: Won-hee Won)