Reporting sexual harassment at a social welfare center leads to wrongful dismissal...Failure leads to lawsuit

In a case where an employee at a social welfare corporation was fired or otherwise disadvantaged after reporting sexual harassment by the facility's director, the Power Harassment 119 hotline has begun to take action, characterizing this as retaliatory power harassment.
On the 23rd, according to a report by Power Harassment 119, the facility director B of A Social Welfare Corporation sexually harassed residents and staff, but a relative of the facility director became the chairman and reported the incident.
The company fired employee C, who was a former director. At an extraordinary board meeting, D, the chairman of the board of directors, ordered the secretary-general C to △convene a board of directors arbitrarily, △try to force the former chairman to resign, and △resign as a new director.
△The act of preparing documents related to the resignation of the former chairman and the election of a new chairman △The act of arbitrarily changing the password for the shared email address, etc., and C Secretary General C
The company applied for relief for unfair dismissal. The Central Labor Relations Commission responded by not recognizing any grounds for disciplinary action and determined that the dismissal was unfair. A Corporation appealed the decision and applied for a retrial, but the request was dismissed on the 14th of last month.
The Central Labor Relations Commission found that the facility director was an employee under the Labor Standards Act, that the facility was a workplace with five or more full-time employees, and that the disciplinary reasons for the employee in this case were partially different from the original judgment.
Therefore, all five grounds for disciplinary action were not recognized as facts," he said. "There was no consideration given to the existence of disciplinary freedom."
Power Harassment 119 claims that despite this decision, Company A is engaging in retaliatory power harassment.
After the Seoul Regional Labor Relations Commission recognized C's wrongful dismissal, the chairman filed a lawsuit against him for forgery of a private document and obstruction of business. He did not reinstate C as secretary general (grade 2) and instead demoted him to section chief (grade 3).
Ms. C has filed a lawsuit against Chairman D, claiming that the allegations are groundless, and plans to also file a lawsuit against the Labor Agency, claiming that the decision was unfair based on her report of sexual harassment.
Choi Ji Woo, head of the social welfare department of the online labor union, said, "At a social welfare facility established to protect a parent and child,
"It is unthinkable that he would sexually harass residents and staff," he said. "What's more, a relative of his took over running the facility and unfairly fired the workers. Cases like this should not end with the chairman being dismissed."
He continued, "We must hold the facilities and corporations accountable and thoroughly supervise them to prevent them from operating their businesses or restricting their outsourcing," and "The government and local governments should hand them over to the private sector alone and systematize management and supervision."
"Without this, illegal operation of social welfare facilities will not be eradicated," he said. The Social Welfare Department of the Power Harassment 119 online labor union is calling for the elimination of privatization of welfare facilities, a ban on coercion into religion and donations, and safe working conditions.
The group has set its three major demands as creating a balance between work and the economy and eradicating harassment in the workplace, and plans to pursue negotiations and discussions with the Ministry of Health and Welfare and local governments.
On the other hand, according to a survey conducted by Power Harassment 119 on 1,000 employees in December last year,
Of those who had experienced harassment (35.9%), 21.2% of those who had been perpetrated by clients were in the health and social welfare service industry, which was higher than the average for employees (14.5%).