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employees of the company run by the wife of former National Assembly member Jeong Bong-joo have come forward claiming that they have been receiving instructions that have nothing to do with work over the years. It is said that he even did housework on errands, and most of the employees confessed that they had experienced something like this.
Reporter Kim Min-jung heard the story.
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few months ago, Mr. A in his twenties, who worked for a health functional food sales company run by the wife of former lawmaker Jeong, thought he was going to be in charge of managing the website, but the task he left immediately after going to work was a family errand.
[Mr. A / Retired: About two or three times a day. I need eggs. Please buy me some eggs. Buy cat supplies, treats, buy food.] The
instructions were like this.
[Company CEO (Ex-Rep. Jeong's wife): Buy me a trio for my house. The square thing when using the dishwasher. (Nene) It's good to have lemon (scent), because lemon doesn't smell fishy.] He
said that he felt embarrassed when he was instructed to even look for cat food.
[CEO of the company (Ex-Rep. Jeong's wife): (Cats) I've gained a lot of weight. I'm on diet food right now and I'm losing weight. Let me know if there is another thing that is the best at this age without gaining the most weight. (Yes, I understand.)]
It is the responsibility of the staff to order the cosmetics that have run out and to leave the laundry to come.
[Mr. A/Retired Person: (TV at home) is broken. I took a rough picture of the monitor and said, 'It came back after 15 seconds, and it turned on. Leave this to AS'. It's frustrating. I don't even know what model the TV is and what it has (at home)... .]
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Jeon Jeong said that there was a time when he directly conducted research on materials needed for graduate school assignments.
It's not just Mr. A who has experienced this.
[Mr. B/Retired Person: (Former Rep. Jeong) When the family leaves the house for a long time, they go to water the flowerpots, and everyone who has passed through (company) did this.] He said
that instructions that had nothing to do with work were repeated over the years.
[Mr. B / Retired Person: Bring luxury sneakers to the company and tell the employees to tie some shoe laces. (Designer's) in a way to tie again off YouTube to see bundles or (rewrote) (Christmas tree ornaments) it would house staff that a few days days]
deda, mostly employees of social rookie who just graduated, Chung Since the lawmaker is an influential person in society, it is said that it was difficult to raise an issue.
"Acts that use the superiority in the workplace to inflict pain on employees and worsen the work environment by performing work beyond the appropriate range".
Although it is a violation of the Workplace Harassment Prevention Act, it is not applicable to family businesses with fewer than 5 employees, so it is in a blind spot.
However, as the wife of former lawmaker Jeong operates multiple business sites virtually without distinction, Victim A plans to file a complaint with the Labor Administration based on the precedent that counted the total number of employees at these business sites.
Former Rep.
Jeong
explained this in a call with SBS,
[Jung Bong-joo / Former Member of the National Assembly: Not responding at all is one-sided talk.
I explained it all, personal secretarial work.
(staff) when they come in.
(Even if it’s a secretary job, it should be related to official duties….) …
…
.]
After that, he left dozens of phone calls and messages and went to the office, but he did not reveal his position.
[Mr. A/Retired Person: It is okay to schedule a meeting (company-related) and book a business trip related flight ticket for the secretary job.
But that's not it.]
(Video coverage: Hyun-sang Kim, Hyun-cheol Park, video editing: Yang Won)