Hanni, member of a lady group NewJeans, speaks at a parliamentary labor committee assembly, Seoul, Oct. 15. Yonhap
The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Wednesday dismissed claims of office harassment towards a member of Ok-pop lady group NewJeans, saying she can’t be thought to be a employee underneath the labor legislation.
NewJeans followers filed a petition with the labor ministry in mid-September, alleging that Hanni Pham, a Vietnamese Australian member of the group, has suffered office bullying inside Hybe, the mum or dad firm of ADOR, NewJeans’ label.
In a single incident, the petitioners stated that when Hanni greeted the members of the lady group ILLIT from Hybe’s sub-label Belift Lab, their supervisor instructed them to “ignore her.” Hanni additionally expressed confusion and frustration over the incident in a Nationwide Meeting assembly on Oct. 15, saying, “I used to be sure that the corporate hated us.”
However the labor ministry stated the Seoul western labor workplace determined to reject the petition concerning NewJeans member Hanni as a result of she can’t be considered as a employee underneath the Labor Requirements Act.
The labor workplace stated that given the content material and nature of the administration contract signed by Hanni, it’s troublesome to view her as a employee underneath the Labor Requirements Act who supplies labor for wages in an employer-employee relationship.
Article 76, Paragraph 2 of the legislation stipulates that no employer or worker shall trigger bodily or psychological struggling to different staff or deteriorate the work setting past the suitable scope of labor by benefiting from superiority in rank, relationship, and so forth. within the office, referring to such an act as office harassment.
The Korean authorities and courts have lengthy categorised entertainers not as employees however as “distinctive entities” who function underneath unique contracts with their administration companies. (Yonhap)
