Monday
January 20, 2020
Gangnam-gu, South Korea
Fine Dust :
A Korea Post employee lifts up a packaged box with two holes to help delivery workers lift boxes on Monday at the institution's headquarters in Jung District, central Seoul.
The government unveiled measures to prevent overwork by couriers and delivery workers. The union representing delivery workers estimate 15 deaths this year alone from overwork. Their deaths mostly cannot be covered by industrial...
Hanjin Corporation apologized for the recent death of a delivery worker.
Unions representing delivery drivers and some of the top companies that employ them on Tuesday inked an agreement to provide labor protections to those workers — a first for Korea's gig economy.
A government group formed to protect essential workers held its first meeting Tuesday, outlining a range of proposals it plans to enact in the following months.
Delivery workers have canceled a threatened strike after logistics companies agreed to increase headcount for package sorting.
Delivery workers have threatened to stop sorting parcels ahead of the Chuseok holidays, claiming that they are not being fully compensated for work being done.
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