”What's your dad doing?” 341 cases of unfair hiring uncovered

Medical foundation A advertises job openings and asks job applicants to state not only their physical condition, but also their lineage, occupation and position. Pharmaceutical company B and medical foundation B ask job applicants to state their family relationships on their resumes and ask about their marital status.
The company collected information on the D transportation company and requested a copy of the resident registration. Each of these companies was fined 3 million won.
Unfair hiring practices such as requesting or collecting personal information unrelated to the job during hiring continue to occur.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor (equivalent to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) inspected 629 places, including online job advertisements, workplaces employing a large number of young people, and construction sites, during the first half of the year, and found that 220 workplaces had violations.
On the 21st, the company announced that 341 cases had been confirmed as violations of the Recruitment Procedure Act, Article 4-3, which stipulates that personal information should not be requested.
In seven cases, the documents were not destroyed even after the retention period had expired. In addition, 21 cases were uncovered in which job seekers were forced to pay for physical examinations during the hiring process, and 45 cases were uncovered in which unsuccessful applicants were not notified of the results.
The Ministry of Employment has imposed fines on 42 companies for not complying with the Recruitment Procedures Act, issued corrective orders in 30 cases, and recommended improvements in 269 cases.
Considering that young people mainly use the internet to look for jobs, the inspection was carried out based on the results of online job portals.
The Ministry of Employment plans to continue to monitor private employment portals in the second half of the year to check on businesses suspected of violating the law.
The ministry plans to cooperate with the government to prevent violations through self-monitoring systems such as filtering. Minister of Employment Lee Jung-sik said, "Young people seeking jobs have to endure the hardships of waiting for the results to be announced after the interview.
I have heard that some people fail twice without even receiving a notice. Currently, notification of results is mandatory, but there is no punishment clause. "We are planning to pass a complete revision of the Fair Hiring Law in this Diet session.
We will actively support the spread of a youth-friendly hiring system."