South Korea: employer responsibility extended to subcontractors

A draft bill adopted by the South Korean National Assembly on 24 August will require the principal to engage in collective bargaining with the employees of subcontracting companies. It thus amends the country’s law on trade union and labour relations, on the principle that the company that actually determines working conditions is considered to be the employer. Furthermore, whereas disputes initiated by trade unions were previously limited by law to wages and working hours, workers’...