Gwangju KEF to Hold Briefing on Strategies for Responding to Collective Bargaining Agreement Signing on the 1st of Next Month

Expansion of the Scope of Ordinary Wages
Guidance for Member Companies' Preparation

Gwangju Employers Federation (Chairman Yang Jinseok, Chairman of Howon Co., Ltd. and Happiness CC) announced on the 31st that it held a briefing session on strategies for responding to the 2025 wage and collective bargaining agreements for both member and non-member companies.

The briefing session, to be held on the second floor of the exhibition hall at Kimdaejung Convention Center on the 1st of next month, aims to review this year's economic outlook and labor union demands, and to identify risk factors in labor-management relations following the Supreme Court’s full bench ruling last December, which expanded the scope of ordinary wages. This is to help member companies prepare thoroughly.

With support from the Korea Employers Federation, the lecturer will cover this year’s economic outlook and major wage-related issues, including domestic and international economic trends and forecasts, trends in reducing working hours, and response strategies. The session will then address this year’s labor-management relations outlook and key issues in collective bargaining, such as major negotiation points, management response strategies, and analysis and response to the Supreme Court’s ordinary wage rulings.

In addition, the session will provide information on projects by the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, youth-friendly ESG support projects promoted by the Korea Employers Federation and the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the Gwangju Employers Federation’s job support projects, and the Gwangju Regional Employment and Labor Office’s workplace innovation and win-win consulting support projects.

Yang Jinseok, Chairman of the Gwangju Employers Federation, said, "We hope that this briefing session on wage and collective bargaining agreements will help labor and management cooperate effectively," adding, "We expect it will help minimize disputes and confusion in the industrial field."

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