Governor Kim Jin-tae hopes that the move will boost the self-governing state's appeal.
Posco will embrace a biweekly four-day work week for its office workers, the steelmaker said, with no changes in the 40-hour-per-week working hours.
Through the momentum of the Supreme Court ruling, the government must come up with a creative proposal to fix the workhour limit that can please both employers and employees.
Samsung Electronics is giving a shot at a flexible work schedule that allows employees to take have a four-day workweek once each month, on the condition that they have satisfied their monthly required working hours.
As flexibility is key to labor reform, it must change the rigid 52-hour workweek more flexibly than before.
Confusion continues over Korea’s plan for an extended workweek, after President Yoon Suk Yeol proposed to keep weekly working hours below 60 — taking a step back from the original plan of allowing a maximum 69-hour workweek.
For the flextime to work, Korea’s work culture must change to encourage workers to use up their rightful rest period.
Rationalization of workhours are only a part of labor reform.
The government is having trouble making the rigid 52-hour workweek more flexible after labor unions and particularly young workers vehemently opposed it.
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