Coupang, affiliates found to have committed 205 workplace safety violations
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(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Cho Min-jung, Okseong-gu = The Ministry of Employment and Labor, which investigated the suspicion of concealing an industrial accident by Coupang's late Jang Deok-joon, violates the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Labor Standards Act...
The Ministry of Employment and Labor has decided to refer the case of Coupang CEO Kim Beom-seok, who is suspected of covering up the death of Mr. Jang Deok-jun from overwork, to the prosecution with an opinion of non-indictment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The ministry also stated that there were no legal violations regarding allegations of obstruction of employment and illegal dispatch resulting from the operation of a s…
Coupang, its subsidiaries face $1.5 million fine for workplace violations
Digital Desk | Seoul, Oct 22 (IANS) The labour ministry here said on Thursday it plans to fine e-commerce giant Coupang and its subsidiaries a combined 1.96 billion won ($1.5 million) for more than a hundred labour and workplace safety violations. The ministry said its inspection of the online retailer, its logistics units -- Coupang Fulfillment Services and Coupang Logistics Services -- and its logistics centres found a combined 206 labour an…
An investigation by a labor inspector from the Ministry of Employment and Labor confirmed that immediately after the death of Coupang logistics center worker Jang Deok-jun in 2020, Coupang Inc. Chairman Kim Beom-seok ordered, "Make sure no record remains that he worked hard." However, it has become difficult to hold him criminally liable due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Labor imposed a fine of ap…
The Ministry of Labor has announced that the case of the late Mr. Jang, who died at the Coupang Fulfillment Daegu Center in 2020, is "difficult to regard as a crime of concealing an industrial accident." While some in the political sphere and civic groups had raised concerns that "Coupang intentionally tried to cover up industrial accidents," the conclusion is that no evidence was found of intentional obstruction of industrial accident claims or…
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