There are local governments that entrust environmental beautification work to the private sector.
In this case, the company's wages are paid by tax.
However, it is said that an executive of a company received a monthly salary of more than 10 million won.
We investigated what happened.
When a private company is commissioned to clean the streets, the wages of the cleaning workers are paid in taxes.
Street cleaning in Yongsan-gu, Seoul has been monopolized by a single cleaning company for decades.
A cleaning worker's monthly salary is around 2.5 million won.
However, when I got the salary statement from this company and looked it up, I found something suspicious.
For several years, an employee was paid about 10 million won a month, sometimes receiving 14 million won as a monthly salary.
Responsible for on-site general management.
But the cleaners at the cleaning company say they've never seen this guy at work.
[Company's Environmental Cleaner: I see it when there's an event. About twice a year? Other than that, I can't even go to the office.]
Who is this person?
On the day of the company meeting, the CEO gets out of the car with three or five employees gathered.
He has served as the CEO since 2014 after retiring as a level 5 manager at Yongsan-gu Office.
However, CEO Lee introduces another person as the president.
[CEO of environmental beautification company: To care for you and for the company… . We hope that you give us a warm round of applause to say thank you to Chairman Kim ○○.] The
person introduced will also reveal his/her mindset as chairman.
[Chairman Kim ○○: When I first took over the company… . Let's change the name of the company to ○○○.] The
president was the person who received a monthly salary of about 10 million won.
According to the regulations of the Ministry of Environment, the budget for the consignment cleaning project should be paid only to environmental cleaners and field managers.
However, the president of the company was collecting about 10 million won in taxes every month.
The chairman appointed a person from Yongsan-gu Office as the CEO and transformed himself into a full-time employee who oversees the site.
To this end, we have even drawn up a labor contract to work 7 days a week from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm.
However, the Ministry of Environment has no regulations to monitor and punish these issues.
[Seolhyeyoung / Yongsan Senator (per definition): I have while charging the private sector bore the endless scandals and problems, (you) is now actively improve the Ministry of actions needed]
President received a salary budget received payments in the ward since the beginning of the year said it was not.
The Yongsan-gu Office said it is reviewing the law on ways to recover wages that have been unjustly taken.
(Video coverage: Lee Yong-do, Yang Doo-won, video editing: Lee Hong-myung)