The Supreme Court ruling that a private company violated the disciplinary process and punished workers by involving ineligible members was'invalid'.



The first part of the Supreme Court (Chief Chief Justice Park Jeong-hwa) raised the plaintiff's hand in an administrative lawsuit filed by three people, including Coca-Cola Beverage employee A, saying, "Please cancel the dismissal disciplinary action," and revoked the court case and returned it to the Seoul Court.



In March 2015, Coca-Cola imposed a median punishment for dismissing A and others for personally misappropriating non-products that were additionally paid for free to customers who purchased more than a certain amount of money in their personal account.



After that, Mr. A and others applied for a reconsideration to Coca-Cola, but the result did not change, and the Central Labor Commission dismissed their request for relief, which resulted in an administrative lawsuit.



Mr. A and others pointed out that ineligible members participated in the discipline.



Coca-Cola's internal regulations state that'the retrial disciplinary committee shall be the general executive for each function', but it is argued that the dismissal is invalid because the disciplinary retrial includes the'division head' rather than the general executive.



The first trial said that Coca-Cola did not follow the disciplinary procedure and thought that the dismissal of Mr. A was invalid, but the second trial overturned the decision of the first trial, and decided that Coca-Cola's argument was valid, saying that there were only two executives in charge at the time.



However, the Supreme Court turned it over again.



The Supreme Court ruled, "At the time, there were two general executives of Coca-Cola, but the company that acquired this company in 2007 also had two more general executives in charge of the business of Coca-Cola, so that it was possible to form a disciplinary committee for review in accordance with the regulations."



It is a case that disputes the illegality of the disciplinary procedure, so there is a view that it has a similar structure to the recent disciplinary case against Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol.



President Yoon's side raised a procedural question several times: "Under the Prosecutors' Disciplinary Act, a preliminary member (prosecutor) is required to resign, but it is illegal to inject a professor at Han-Jung Jeong, who criticized Yoon."



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