37% of Workers "Did Not Receive Allowances or Compensation"
Gap in 'Right to Take Holidays' Doubles
On the 1st of next month, 'Labor Day,' about one in four office workers will go to work, but 37% of them do not receive holiday work pay or compensatory leave. On the 30th, HR tech company Incruit announced that a survey conducted from the 23rd to 24th targeting 1,076 office workers ahead of Labor Day showed these results. The response rate for working on Labor Day was 24.3%. Compared to the same survey last year (30.4%), the number of workers going to work decreased by 6.1 percentage points.
On the 1st of next month, 'Labor Day,' about one in four office workers will go to work, but 37% of them do not receive holiday work pay or compensatory leave. [Photo by Jo Yongjun jun21@]
By company size, 41.3% of workers in companies with fewer than 5 employees answered that they would go to work, followed by public enterprises and public institutions (29.5%), small and medium-sized enterprises (22.2%), mid-sized companies (22.2%), and large companies (14.9%). Labor Day is a paid holiday that applies to all workers under the Labor Standards Act regardless of workplace size or industry according to relevant laws. When asked whether companies provide holiday work pay or compensatory leave to those working on Labor Day, 37.2% responded 'do not provide.' Those who answered 'provide' were 37.5%, and 'do not know' were 25.3%.
The average satisfaction score for the current company was 6.1 out of 10. By company size, public institution workers gave the highest score (6.7), while small and medium-sized enterprise workers gave the lowest score (5.9). Regardless of company size, the most desired aspect by workers was the payment or expansion of bonuses (33.2%). Increasing in-house welfare (19%) and establishing a reasonable personnel evaluation system (10.3%) followed.
'Red Days' Polarization... Non-regular and Low-wage Workers Have Less Time Off
Among them, a survey revealed that the number of workers taking paid leave on public holidays, known as "ppalgan nal" (red days), is decreasing. In particular, workers with unstable employment or those working in smaller companies found it more difficult to receive paid leave on public holidays. [Photo by Asia Economy DB]
Among these, a survey showed that the number of workers taking paid leave on public holidays, known as 'red days,' is decreasing. Especially, workers with unstable employment or in smaller workplaces found it harder to receive paid leave on public holidays.
Earlier, on the 28th, Workplace Bullying 119 commissioned Global Research to conduct a survey from February 2 to 13 targeting 1,000 workers nationwide aged 19 and older about 'paid leave on red days.' The results showed that the response rate for 'can take paid leave on red days' decreased by 3.3 percentage points from 69% in the first quarter of last year to 65.6% in the first quarter of this year.
By characteristics, Workplace Bullying 119 reported that the response rate for 'can take paid leave on red days' decreased among those with unstable employment, smaller workplace size, lower workplace status, and lower wages. While regular workers (81.8%), workplaces with 300 or more employees (81.4%), office workers (85.6%), senior managers (78.1%), and those earning over 5 million KRW per month (86%) mostly responded that they could take time off on red days, non-regular workers (41.5%), workplaces with fewer than 5 employees (41.1%), non-office workers (45.8%), general staff (45.5%), and those earning less than 1.5 million KRW per month (31.7%) responded less than half. Additionally, non-union members (62.8%) found it harder than union members (84.8%), women (60.1%) than men (69.9%), and shift workers (68.4%) than non-shift workers (51.3%) to take paid leave on red days.
In particular, workers earning less than 1.5 million KRW (-18.8 percentage points) saw their response rate for paid leave on red days drop from 50.5% in the first quarter of last year to 31.7% this year, a decrease of 18.8 percentage points in one year. Workers in workplaces with fewer than 5 employees (-11.7 percentage points), non-office workers (-8.8 percentage points), general staff (-8.3 percentage points), and non-regular workers (-6.8 percentage points) also showed a decrease in paid leave responses compared to the same period last year. In contrast, workers in workplaces with 300 or more employees, regular workers, office workers, and those earning over 5 million KRW showed little change compared to the previous year. Senior managers (-5.2 percentage points) showed a decrease beyond the margin of error, but the decline was smaller than that of general staff.
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