The number of non-regular workers employed by South Korea’s top 10 business groups fell for the third year in row in 2014, a local corporate research firm said Sunday.
According to Chaebul.com, 92 companies belonging to the conglomerates checked employed a total of 631,198 people as of late September, up 1.64 percent from 621,005 people at the end of 2013.
Of these, 38,233 were non-regular, or temporary workers, or 6.06 percent of all employed by these companies.
In 2013, there were some 38,857 non-regular workers employed by the big companies, which is smaller than those for 2011 and 2012.
At the end of last year such employees made up 6.26 percent of the total workforce of large companies, while they stood at 6.77 percent in 2012.
By conglomerate, the number of temporary workers employed by the Hyundai Heavy Industries, LG, Samsung, Hyundai Motor and Hanjin groups increased, while numbers fell for Hanwha, POSCO, SK, GS and Lotte.
World’s largest shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Group’s three subsidiaries had some 2,055 non-regular employees on payroll, up 688 from 1,367 the year before. This is the single largest increase among the large South Korean companies, Chaebul.com said.
Samsung Group had some 9,632 non-regular workers, up 640 from last year.
In contrast, steelmaker POSCO cut its non-regular workforce by
870 people to 1,221, the sharpest decline of any large conglomerate this year. (Yonhap)
