Samsung gets S Korean government’s nod for 64-hour workweek

[Digital Daily Reporter Lee Na-yeon] The Small and Medium Business Special Committee of the Democratic Party of Korea officially proposed to the party's policy committee the revision of the system for legalizing artificial intelligence (AI) lawyers and home doctors and the relaxation of the 52-hour workweek system limited to venture sector personnel as a pledge for the upcoming June presidential election. Kwon Chil-seung, chairman of the Small a…

Samsung gets S Korean government’s nod for 64-hour workweek

Samsung has probably become the first company in South Korea to get approval from the government for a 64-hour workweek. As per the country’s labour laws, companies cannot make their employees work for over 52 hours a week. However, Samsung’s large-scale integration or LSI division found that it was unable to meet deadlines or fulfil production targets in that time. Many other companies also objected to the rule. Samsung has gone ahead and obtai…

South Korean company Samsung Electronics has successfully changed its country’s labor regulations, becoming the first company to allow employees in its chip design division to work up to 64 hours a week. The move was approved by South Korea’s Ministry of Labor, overcoming a previous 52-hour limit that had previously slowed projects at the company’s System LSI division, which researches and... The post South Korea’s Ministry of Labor approves 64-…