Over 200 Seoul Baik Hospital Staff and Professors File Injunction to Suspend Closure Effectiveness

Employees and professors of Seoul Baek Hospital, scheduled to close at the end of this month, have filed an injunction with the court.

On the 20th, when the board meeting regarding the closure of Seoul Baek Hospital was held, employees opposing the closure held placards at Baek Hospital in Jung-gu, Seoul. Photo by Dongju Yoon doso7@

According to the staff of Seoul Baek Hospital on the 5th, 24 professors and 240 employees filed an injunction to suspend the effect of the closure resolution against the school foundation Inje Hakwon. Professor Cho Young-kyu, chairman of the professors' council, explained, "The closure decision process by the foundation violates the Private School Act and the articles of incorporation, making it invalid, and the transfer of employees to Busan also violates the Labor Standards Act, which we specified in the injunction application."

Earlier, the board of directors of Inje Hakwon decided to close Seoul Baek Hospital in June due to financial difficulties. Accordingly, the hospital notified that all patient treatments would end by the 31st, and employees would be transferred to affiliated hospitals in Busan. Professors and employees of Seoul Baek Hospital are protesting, calling the closure decision arbitrary and unilateral, and the transfer unfair.

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