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400 subcontractors at Hyundai-Kia Motors have finally won a lawsuit against Hyundai-Kia Motors for recognition as workers.

The Supreme Court has ruled that direct processes such as conveyor belt work as well as indirect processes such as production management must be directly employed if they have worked for more than two years.



Correspondent Kim Kwan-jin.



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In 2010, 430 workers from Hyundai-Kia Motors' in-house subcontractors were contractually employees of subcontractors, but in reality, they filed a lawsuit against Hyundai-Kia Motors for recognition as workers, claiming that they were illegally dispatched under specific work instructions from Hyundai-Kia Motors.



After 12 years, the Supreme Court upheld the lower court ruling that recognized worker status for in-house subcontractors who had worked for more than two years.



[Yoon Jang-hyuk/Chairman of the National Metal Workers' Union: First of all, I would like to express my gratitude and condolences to our comrades.

Today's ruling seems to be not the end, but a new beginning.]



The current dispatch law stipulates that if a dispatched worker is employed for more than two years, the agency must directly hire the dispatched worker.



The issue was whether the main office specifically directed and supervised in-house subcontractors, but the Supreme Court recognized not only the direct process, which is the work of the conveyor belt line, but also the indirect process, such as production management and packaging, as dispatch work.



It was determined that the dispatch relationship was established in all processes as the direct and indirect processes were continuously and closely linked.



[Jeong Gyu-ho / Attorney: Starting with painting, car body, and press, the quality control process, the production control process, and all the overall processes were sentenced.]



As the court recognized most of the claims for compensation based on the difference in wages, Hyundai Motor Company should pay 5.7 billion won and Kia Motors 5 billion won to plaintiff workers.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Yumira)