South Korea's Ministry of Employment and Labor to conduct labor inspections on 4,120 locations and 100 construction sites for habitual unpaid wages from the 2nd

Company A, which employs many disabled people, advertises to the outside world that it is a company that values disabled people, but in the past three years, it has paid 1.4 billion won (approximately 150 million yen) in wages to 291 employees, including disabled people.
According to an anonymous tip, company B in Gyeonggi Province "has not paid its employees for over five months, and only the president and his family are receiving their salaries."
The serious situation has been reported. On the 1st, the South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that it would begin labor inspections from the 2nd at 4,120 companies and 100 construction sites that have habitually not paid wages as mentioned above.
The ministry will begin by carrying out planned inspections of 120 companies suspected of deliberate non-payment and misuse of the comprehensive wage system based on anonymous reports, in order to eradicate non-payment.
As a result, if deliberate non-payment is confirmed, the government plans to take immediate legal action without giving any opportunity to correct the situation. In addition, the government will report 4,000 companies and workers who have been continuously non-paying wages for the past three years.
On-site guidance and inspections will be carried out at 100 construction sites where employment benefits and other payments have not been paid for a period of two weeks from the 2nd, in order to prevent and eliminate unpaid wages.
In September of this year, the government amended the law to strengthen economic sanctions against habitual non-payment business owners.
Through planned supervision, guidance and inspection, the government will alleviate the difficulties faced by workers who are suffering from unpaid wages and raise social awareness that "unpaid wages is a serious crime."
The Minister of Employment and Labor emphasized the significance of this labor inspection, saying, "We will focus our labor inspection capabilities on correcting the mistaken perceptions of habitual unpaid employers and resolving the difficulties of victimized workers."
Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Employment and Labor's e-Employment Statistics Index, as of September this year, 217,000 workers have not received their wages in a timely manner, totaling 1.5224 trillion won.
This is 85.3% of the previous record of 1.7846 trillion won. If the unpaid wages from October to December this year exceed 262.2 billion won, the unpaid wages this year will be 1.0% of last year's (1.04 trillion won).
It is expected to surpass the previous record of 784.6 billion won.