SK Inno Ulsan Complex Opens Win-Win Welfare Center for Partner Company Members

1% of SK Members' Salaries Collected
Government Support Brings Total Project Cost to 1.5 Billion KRW

SK Innovation Ulsan Complex (Ulsan CLX) announced on the 24th that it has started operating the Win-Win Welfare Center for partner company members.

Participants attending the opening ceremony of the Sangsaeng Welfare Center are taking a commemorative photo. Photo by SK Innovation

The Win-Win Welfare Center is a welfare facility exclusively for partner companies, established as part of the ‘Win-Win Solidarity Formation Support Project’ with the goal of improving the welfare of workers from partner companies residing within large corporations. This project is structured so that when labor and management raise funds to enhance the welfare of partner company workers, the government supports up to 100% of the employer’s contribution and up to 200% of the workers’ contribution.

SK Energy is the only participant from the petrochemical industry and contributed a total of 550 million KRW, combining 450 million KRW from the ‘1% Happiness Sharing Fund’?which collects 1% of SK members’ salaries?and 100 million KRW from company contributions. Adding government support funds of 950 million KRW, the Win-Win Welfare Center was completed with a total project cost of 1.5 billion KRW. This further enriched the project’s purpose of ‘win-win’ cooperation between the primary contractor and partner companies.

The first floor of the Win-Win Welfare Center is equipped with shower facilities, and the second floor provides a resting area for partner company members. Facility management will be handled by the ‘Win-Win Solidarity Partner Company Council,’ a gathering of partner companies.

The opening ceremony held at the Win-Win Welfare Center on the Ulsan CLX site was attended by key guests including Kim Yoo-jin, Director of Labor Policy at the Ministry of Employment and Labor; Ahn Hyo-dae, Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs of Ulsan City; Ahn Seong-seok, Head of the Yeongnam Headquarters of the Korea National Railway Corporation; Kim Beom-seok, Director of the Ulsan Employment and Labor Office; as well as representatives of partner companies and SK members.

Director Kim stated, “I hope exemplary cases like the Win-Win Welfare Center will expand throughout the Korean industry, leading to improved treatment of partner company workers,” and emphasized, “The government will also provide thorough support to ensure that a culture of win-win cooperation is firmly established.”

Choi Jin-young, representative of the Win-Win Solidarity Partner Company Council, said, “We thank SK and SK members for their efforts toward win-win cooperation between large, medium, and small enterprises,” and added, “We will carefully manage the Win-Win Welfare Center so that partner company members can use it effectively in the future.”

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