Human Rights Commission: "Fixed-term Teachers' Experience Must Be Recognized When Calculating Seniority for New Employees"

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) has determined that excluding fixed-term teaching experience while recognizing regular teaching experience when calculating the salary step for new employees constitutes discrimination.

On the 6th, the NHRCK announced that it recommended Company A not to uniformly exclude fixed-term teaching experience when converting the experience of new hires.

According to the NHRCK, complainant Mr. B filed a complaint stating that Company A recognized 60% of regular teaching experience but did not recognize any fixed-term teaching experience when calculating the salary step for new employees. Company A argued, "In most companies, including public institutions, contract and regular employees differ in efforts during the hiring process and costs and efforts for training after hiring," and claimed, "Recognizing the experience of regular employees who have undergone a verified hiring and talent development process when hiring new employees is not discrimination."

The NHRCK judged that although there may be differences in efforts and training processes until hiring between fixed-term and regular teachers, completely denying fixed-term teaching experience solely for this reason is not reasonable. The NHRCK stated, "When calculating the experience of newly hired educational public officials, the experience of both regular and fixed-term teachers is recognized equally at 100%," and added, "Not recognizing fixed-term teaching experience at all when converting experience for new employees constitutes discriminatory behavior."

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