Nosy interviewers: crossing the line is still legal in Korea
"What do your parents do for a living?"
"Why did you not go to high school?"
"Were you ever a victim of school bullying?"
These are some of the questions an employment candidate may still encounter while seeking for a job in South Korea.
According to data collected by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, 84 cases of privacy violations during the employment interviews have been reported in the past two years. Job applicants were asked questions irrelevant to their abilities to perform the job, such as their marital status or where they are from.
While South Korea stipulates that a job applicant is not required to provide information that is irrelevant to their performance of the job, this regulation only applies to the collection of basic examination materials during the initial screening process. Under the current Fair Hiring Procedure Act, asking such questions during a job interview is not technically considered the same kind of "collection of basic examination materials," therefore creating a blind spot that allows employers to ask potentially discriminatory questions.
The labor ministry provides guidelines that state the means to protect one's personal information during the recruitment process and while working. However, as they have no statutory force, it has been pointed out that it is difficult to prevent applicants from having their privacy invaded during job interviews.
The guidelines state that information about a job applicant's physical conditions such as their height and weight, place of origin, marital status or property, as well as the education, occupations or property of their immediate family members and siblings, should not be collected.
Some lawmakers are demanding the government actively encourage companies to comply with the guidelines. "If such behaviors are not eradicated and only the guidelines remain in place, the labor ministry should discuss the issue with the Personal Information Protection Commission and amend the legislation so that it can protect privacy," Yoon Ju-keyng from the People Power Party said.
相关文章
Keurig K Mini deal — get $30 off at Target
GET $30 OFF:As of Aug 28, you can snag a Keurig K Mini single-serve coffee maker for just $59.99, do2024-09-22- “7月至9月是藤椒的黄金采摘期,连片生长的藤椒树上挂满了一串串青绿色的藤椒,成为村里一道独特的风景线。村里处处飘散着藤椒的香味,几乎家家户户都在摘藤椒,忙得不亦乐乎。”回忆起今年藤椒丰收时的景象,宝兴2024-09-22
Twitter will now warn you before you like a tweet with a fact
Last week, Twitter released a preliminary look at how their election-year anti-misinformation measur2024-09-22Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood tale ties Trump fervor to Nazism
It feels like we've all aged many years since Wednesday's failed coup on the U.S. Capitol by Donald2024-09-22World's first green ammonia plant is now open for business
Three Danish energy tech firms have flung open the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in th2024-09-22- I've been an iPhone user for over six years now, around the time the iPhone 4 came out I switched fr2024-09-22
最新评论