Job Inheritance
It has been found that jobs are being handed down in not a few Korean enterprises.
According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, approximately 30 percent of the 700 companies it recently examined have special provisions so that retired and long-serving employees’ family members can work for them.
“Such kinship-based special employment is unreasonable and directly contrary to proper labor market practices,” the ministry explained, adding, “We will monitor collective agreements more closely so that job seekers can compete on a level playing field.”
The preferential hiring is more frequently found in major corporations with more influential labor unions. Such practices, however, could result in clashes between generations in the long term.