This Year, 170,000 Increase in Large Corporation Employees... Slight Decrease in Dispatched and Outsourced Workers Outside Affiliation

Non-affiliated Workers Account for 17.7%

The number of employees disclosed this year by companies with 300 or more employees increased by 174,000 compared to last year. Unlike the increase in the number of employees belonging to the disclosed companies, the number of non-affiliated workers such as dispatched and outsourced workers decreased.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced on the 26th that it has completed the '2024 Employment Type Disclosure' for companies with 300 or more regular employees.

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As of the end of March this year, the number of disclosed companies totaled 4,057, an increase of 170 from last year. The disclosure rate recorded 99.8%. The number of employees disclosed by these companies this year increased by 174,000 from the previous year to 5,765,000.

The number of affiliated employees disclosed by the companies this year was 4,743,000, an increase of 177,000 compared to last year. The proportion within the total disclosed employees rose by 0.6 percentage points from the previous year to 82.3%.

Among affiliated employees, those with indefinite-term contracts accounted for 73.0% (3,463,000), and fixed-term contract workers accounted for 27.0% (1,280,000). Both types of employees increased by 70,000 and 17,000 respectively compared to last year.

On the other hand, the number of non-affiliated workers such as dispatched, subcontracted, and outsourced workers disclosed by the companies totaled 1,022,000, a decrease of 3,000 from the previous year. The proportion also fell by 0.6 percentage points from the previous year to 17.7%.

Kim Moon-soo, Minister of Employment and Labor, said, "It is a meaningful result that the number of affiliated employees increased compared to last year amid the trend of increasing disclosure scale," and added, "We will continue to do our best to support companies' autonomous improvement of employment structures."

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