Human Rights Commission: Hiring Practice of Male Announcers as Regular Employees and Female Announcers as Contract Workers Constitutes Gender Discrimination
Recommendation for Regular Employment Conversion to the Representative of the Broadcasting Company
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[Asia Economy Reporter Donghoon Jeong] The National Human Rights Commission has pointed out that the hiring practice of employing male announcers as regular employees and female announcers as contract or freelance workers constitutes gender discrimination, and has recommended that the representative of the broadcasting company take measures to address this issue.
On the 17th, the Human Rights Commission recommended that the representative of Broadcasting Company A convert female announcers in non-regular positions to regular employment. It also recommended conducting an on-site investigation of Company A's hiring status and preparing measures to improve gender-discriminatory hiring practices.
Petitioners filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission in June last year, alleging that Company A had a discriminatory practice of hiring men as regular announcers and women as freelance announcers. According to the Commission's investigation, all regular announcers hired by Company A since the 1990s were male, while all 15 contract announcers and 5 freelance announcers hired from 1997 until June 2019, when the complaint was filed, were female.
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In response, Company A claimed, "It was merely a coincidence that the results turned out this way, and there was no intention of gender discrimination." However, the Human Rights Commission judged that "when female announcers were needed to fill existing vacancies, they were recruited and announced as contract or freelance positions, whereas when male announcers were needed, they were hired as regular employees," and concluded that "this hiring practice is the result of a long-standing gender-discriminatory hiring practice."
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