20% Female Executives... Shinsegae Chosun Hotel Selected as a 'Top Job Company'

Selected as '2020 Korea's Top Job Creator'
The Only One in the Hotel Industry

From the left, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun and Han Chae-yang, CEO of Shinsegae Chosun Hotel, are taking a commemorative photo at the 'Korea's Best Job Companies' awards ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor on the 29th.

[Asia Economy Reporter Minyoung Cha] Shinsegae Chosun Hotel announced on the 30th that it was selected as the only hotel for the '2020 Korea Job Excellence Company' hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor on the 29th.

The Korea Job Excellence Company was established in 2018 to select and reward 100 companies that have created good working environments by generating employment and improving working conditions.

Shinsegae Chosun Hotel received excellent evaluations in both quantitative and qualitative aspects related to jobs. In particular, it was praised for its practice of work-life balance (Work-Life Balance), youth employment and improvement of job quality for employees, consideration for women’s jobs, and labor-management coexistence and mutual growth.

Shinsegae Chosun Hotel is promoting in-house campaigns, vacations, leave, and on-time leaving to foster a family-friendly workplace culture. To encourage winter and summer season vacations, it recommends using at least 5 days and 10 days of sabbatical leave, and the return rate after maternity and childcare leave reaches about 80%. It encourages both male and female employees to take childcare leave and strives for their return and settlement.

It is also leading in youth employment creation. The proportion of youth employment among new hires reached 84% in 2018 and 80% in 2019. The hotel is committed to career development and enhancing professional capabilities in the hotel service sector, providing online platform education, short-term on-site exchange work programs at major overseas luxury hotels, and opportunities to visit excellent overseas luxury hotels and restaurants.

Women’s employment is also increasing. Among the 442 new hires in 2019, 214 were women, accounting for about 50%. In addition to statutory maternity leave, the company supports an additional 60 days of unpaid leave as an in-house welfare benefit, 3 days of infertility treatment leave, and up to 6 months of infertility leave. The proportion of female executives among all executives reached 20% as of April this year.

It also contributes to labor-management coexistence and mutual growth. It donated a banquet reproduction video at the Deoksugung Seokjojeon Korean Empire History Hall by recreating Western and Korean banquet dishes of the Korean Empire royal family, and contributed to signing a youth food service startup mentoring program through a business agreement with Jung-gu Office in Seoul.

Chae-yang Han, CEO of Shinsegae Chosun Hotel, said, “We will make further efforts to become a hotel where all employees support a balanced life between work and life, create quality jobs, and lead the development of core talents.”

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