'Drunk Driving and Sexual Harassment'... Repeated Misconduct by National Pension Service Employees

[Asia Economy Reporter Park So-yeon] The National Pension Service, which vowed to implement strong reform measures following last year's incident of employees smoking marijuana, has been found to have continued employee misconduct such as drunk driving and sexual harassment in the first half of this year.

On the 11th, according to the 'Employee Disciplinary Records' submitted by the National Pension Service to Heo Jong-sik, a member of the Health and Welfare Committee of the National Assembly from the Democratic Party of Korea, 10 employees were disciplined for various misconducts from February to July this year.

The specific number of disciplinary cases by reason were ▲ drunk driving 1 case ▲ sexually harassing language or behavior 1 case ▲ inappropriate language or behavior 6 cases ▲ violation of service regulations 1 case ▲ poor work attitude 1 case ▲ violation of working hours 1 case (including overlaps).

Among them, the six employees who used inappropriate language or behavior towards other employees received reprimands and suspensions.

The employee caught drunk driving and the employee who engaged in sexually harassing language or behavior were respectively punished with a one-month salary reduction and a three-month suspension. It was confirmed that the employee caught drunk driving received a performance bonus of 1.22 million won this year as well, following last year.

The National Pension Service established reform measures on December 23 of the same year, triggered by the marijuana smoking incident involving employees in September last year. Sexual misconduct, acceptance of money and entertainment, embezzlement and misuse of public funds, hiring misconduct, drunk driving, and drugs were identified as six major misconducts, and a zero-tolerance policy was decided to be applied.

Representative Heo said, "The National Pension Service has grown into one of the world's top three pension funds with reserves of 919 trillion won, but moral decay among employees has not been eradicated," adding, "Despite the institution head's apology and reform measures, misconduct continues, so drastic measures are necessary."

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