SK Hynix, Lotte Shopping, HanmiGlobal... Top 'Family-Friendly' Companies

Ministry of Gender Equality and Family '2023 Family-Friendly Certification and Government Awards'
5,900 Companies Certified... Six Times More Than 10 Years Ago

Ten companies, including SK Hynix, Lotte Shopping, and HanmiGlobal, were selected as top companies while maintaining family-friendly certification.

Nearly 6,000 companies that guarantee work-family balance and create a family-friendly corporate culture received government certification as family-friendly companies. The number of companies certified by the government this year has increased more than sixfold compared to 10 years ago.

On the 19th, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family held the '2023 Family-Friendly Certification and Government Awards Ceremony' at HW Convention in Jongno-gu, Seoul. Among the 2,476 companies that applied for family-friendly certification this year, 2,183 companies passed the certification criteria.

Kim Hyun-sook, Minister of Gender Equality and Family, is delivering a greeting at the '2023 Family-Friendly Certification and Government Awards Ceremony' held on the afternoon of the 19th at HW Convention in Jongno-gu, Seoul.
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Among them, 894 companies received new certification, 609 extended their certification validity period, and 732 were recertified. The total number of companies certified as family-friendly this year was 5,911, an increase of about 9% compared to last year (5,415). In 2014, only 956 companies received family-friendly certification. Among the companies certified this year, 668 (11.3%) were large enterprises, 4,110 (69.5%) were small and medium-sized enterprises, and 1,133 (19.2%) were public institutions.

Ten companies, including SK Hynix, Lotte Shopping, and HanmiGlobal, which have maintained family-friendly certification since 2009, were selected as top companies. HanmiGlobal, which presented a case study on this day, supports families with childbirth by offering unconditional promotion upon the birth of a third child and providing childcare assistant support for one year upon the birth of a fourth child.

They have made it mandatory for female workers to take three months of parental leave immediately after maternity leave and expanded parental leave to two years per child, as well as two years of telecommuting during childcare periods.

Moon Min-ji, Senior Manager of the HR team at HanmiGlobal, said, "Family-friendly companies are not completed in an instant. We continuously improved the system by surveying the needs of members," adding, "(HanmiGlobal) will strive to be a model of 'happy management,' where happy members become excellent members."

Eighteen companies selected as excellent family-friendly companies received awards. Companies awarded the Presidential Citation include Lotte MCC, ServiceTop, and Sanho Export Packaging; five companies including Gyeongnam Bank, Cyberdyne, and Thomas Cable received the Prime Minister's Citation; and ten companies including Hankyoreh Newspaper, Yooyoung Pharmaceutical, and Alpha Brothers received the Minister of Gender Equality and Family Citation.

Lotte MCC received the Presidential Citation for fostering a family-friendly workplace culture by operating a mandatory paternity leave system for men since 2017 and providing psychological counseling support for employees and their families. ServiceTop was recognized for introducing an automatic parental leave system and expanding infertility treatment leave from the existing 3 days to 16 days. Sanho Export Packaging, despite being a small and medium-sized enterprise, has supported employees raising children for over 10 years with birth celebration bonuses, parental leave support funds, and children's tuition fees.

Kim Hyun-sook, Minister of Gender Equality and Family, said, "When companies recognize and practice the importance of family-friendly management, a family-friendly workplace culture can take root not only in companies but also in our society as a whole," adding, "An environment where marriage, childbirth, and parenting can be happily chosen will become a company's competitiveness."

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