[vol.22] [Equal Rights Counselling] Counseling Cases from January & February
WORKING WOMAN 2008. 3. 21. 11:54|
Equal Rights Counselling Counseling Cases from January & February In Soon Wang, Sec.Gen. of KWWAU
Unjust Dismissal How to make the resignation letter, which was forceful submitted, invalid She worked in XX University Hospital for 20 years. Recently the hospital tried to recommend female employees to resign. Meanwhile the hospital made new two year contracts with the retired employees, some temporary employees and interns became regular employees, and the hospital recruited new employees. Her boss said, "The Secretary General of hospital wants to fire all the employees who have worked for more than ten years because the hospital should pay pensions for the employees working for more than twenty years. Under the circumstance, she wrote a resignation letter and she felt that it was unfair. Therefore she submitted an appeal to the Special Committee of Women(Pusan) Have to quit the job because of the age She worked for eight months as a housekeeper in a newly built apartment. There were five more women housekeepers. They all were regarded as good and efficient workers. However they heard from the director of the maintenance office that they shouldq quit work because they are getting old. A few days after, they were told that they did not clean the elevators properly and the machines were out of order. They were supposed to be responsible. They had to quit the job. Moreover they did not receive their last salary yet. They wonder whether they could receive the last salary or not.(Puchon) Dismissal Notice due to legal action against the violence of a senior officer She worked in a manufacture company as secretary. She was badly beaten by her manager and the hospital estimated two weeks for recovering her injury. She brought the case to the court. After two days of rest, she went to work and her boss shouted at her with a dismissal notice. He also mentioned that she would not receive any salary or retirement allowance. Her colleagues were sorry for her broken nose but they all seem to regard her legal action as an over reaction.(Central) Unjust treatments due to maternity leave She worked in the XXX Electronics for 14 years. She was shifted to the section where workers carry heavy stuff when she was in the 8th month of her pregnancy. The worst thing is that the section next to her new section was the section for cleaning goods where the workers are using detergents that need to be examined every six months. After she moved to the section, her legs got swollen, her womb was sore, and finally started to bleed. She submitted an application for maternity leave. The company did not accept her application for the reason that her name was on the list for being dismissed soon. So, she got a letter from her medical doctor and got the letter notarized and sent it to the company. Then, the company sent her a dismissal notice. (Inchon) Dismissal notice during maternity leave She worked for three years in the company. She was the first woman to apply for maternity leave. At the moment, there are no married women employees. She was the only one married and pregnant are in her company. According to the regulation, two months are guaranteed for maternity leave. She often mentioned the date of her maternity leave and submitted the vacation plan to the company. She had to start her maternity leave one week earlier than it was planned. Her boss informed her that her vacation was not accepted so that she was dismissed by the end of December.(Central) Application for maternity leave should include resignation letter She worked as a designer in a distribution company for four years. She started as a dispatched worker but she has never renewed her labor contract with the company for the past four years. She expected to deliver in April. Her boss tried to persuade her to resign from her work and talked as if there was no maternity leave. In fact, it is clearly manifested in the company constitution that there are two months of maternity leave. If she want to get her maternity leave, she should submit her resignation letter, too. She does not know what to do.(Central) Sexual abuse, dirty words, and violence within the workplace Be careful of problem manager She worked in a hotel as an intern. She was called by her manager. Coming into his office, he attempted to abuse her sexually. All the new female comers heard about his bad reputation but, she, unfortunately, did not. She wants to do something to stopsexual abuse within workplace.(Pusan) Sexual abuse by senior employee while drinking She works in a huge discount mart, which has about 300 employees as sales woman. In the drinking place, her senior employee attempted to abuse her sexually so that she tried to run away. Then, he used violence to stop her. Therefore other female employees and he had some physical confrontation. Afterwards, the female employees brought up the case in the workplace. The senior employee denied the fact and even said that he was hurt by the physical attack of the female employees. The company is going to fire both, the female employee and the senior employee. What can she do.(Inchon) Drunken boss touches breasts She works in a garment company. While she was talking to her colleagues, her boss came into the place. He suddenly touched her breasts. There have been several occasions of being sexually abused by him. How to handle this?(Seoul) Constant sexual abuse of the manager She worked with four men, the boss, the manager, and one staff. A month after she entered the company, the manager began to ask for coffee, cigarettes, and other un-official demands. Then he began to stare at her with evil eyes and to say, "I can imagine your naked body, I am sure that you want to hug me, Shall we play?..." She really wants to quit her job. She heard that former female employees quit their work because of him. What can she do?(Masan & Changwon) Constant violence and violent words She is having a hard time with her male colleagues who use violent words and even use violence. He used to say, "Shall I tear off your mouse? Bastard....", "SOB", etc. A medical doctor applied physical violence to a nurse She works in the emergency room. A doctor got angry at me because I did not change a pillow of one patient. He threw his chart away. I appealed, "Why are you shouting?" Then, he hit my face and even threw a chair on me. (Kwangju) |
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