Labor & Employment

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Overview

BKL’s Labor and Employment Group (the “Group”) provides optimal solutions that meet client needs, leveraging its extensive experience and expertise in the practice area. The Group’s professionalism and capabilities are widely recognized by both domestic and international corporate clients, as evidenced by numerous awards from prestigious legal publications and high client satisfaction ratings.

Comprehensive Legal Services in Litigation, Advisory and Regulatory Areas

The Group is composed of a diverse team, including attorneys with substantial experience in labor cases as former court judges, attorneys and certified labor consultants with a variety of hands-on experience in corporate labor matters, as well as former Ministry of Employment and Labor officials. It also includes both Korean and foreign-qualified attorneys, enabling the Group to effectively provide legal services to foreign corporate clients, with the capability of comprehensive legal services across a wide range of labor issues.

Proven Track Record and Outstanding Client Feedback

The Group has a distinguished history of successfully representing major domestic and multinational corporations in numerous cases, achieving favorable outcomes in numerous cases, including significant Supreme Court hearings with far-reaching social implications. The Group also has extensive experience in various labor and employment practice areas such as corporate restructuring, collective bargaining and workplace harassment. Additionally, it has a strong track record in handling regulatory matters including dealing with labor inspections by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and criminal labor cases involving the violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Key Services

Individual Labor-Management Relations

Represents clients in various cases involving dismissals, wages and in-house subcontracting before the courts and the Labor Relations Commission

Provides advice on employment contracts, employment regulations, internal investigation, changes in human resources management system and workforce restructuring processes

Advises clients on issues related to working hours, in-house subcontracting and wage structures

Delivers training and education to numerous corporations on workplace sexual harassment and bullying prevention

Represents clients in criminal labor cases involving the violations of various labor-related laws and regulations such as the Labor Standards Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Serious Accidents Punishment Act

Advises clients on the responses to the labor inspection by the Ministry of Employment and Labor

Collective Labor-Management Relations

Represents clients in various cases including mediation, arbitration and litigation involving labor issues before the courts and the Labor Relations Commission

Advises clients on handling collective bargaining and labor-management disputes

Represents clients in criminal labor cases related to unfair labor practices and violations of collective agreements

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Presented oral arguments before an en banc panel at the Supreme Court

Represented domestic electronic products manufacturers and shipbuilding companies in large-scale illegal worker dispatch cases

Represented and advised domestic shipbuilding companies in the cases involving the violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and responses to the investigations by the Prosecutors’ Office and the Ministry of Employment and Labor

Litigation

Presented oral arguments before an en banc panel at the Supreme Court

Represented various clients including domestic automobile makers, electric vehicle manufacturers and battery producers, in cases involving significant disputes over ordinary and average wages

Represented domestic electronic products manufacturers and shipbuilding companies in large-scale illegal worker dispatch cases

Represented domestic cement manufacturers in responding to investigations by the Prosecutors’ Office and the Ministry of Employment and Labor regarding alleged violation of the Worker Dispatch Act

Represented a foreign airline company in the case involving the workforce restructuring

Represented a domestic food manufacturer in its response to labor inspection by the Ministry of Employment and Labor

Advice and Guidance

Represented various domestic and multinational gaming companies in the collective bargaining process

Represented a foreign distribution company in mediating labor disputes before the Labor Relations Commission and advised on various labor-management disputes

Advised a foreign printer manufacturing company on working hours regulations

Provided analytical consulting services to a domestic distribution company concerning in-house subcontracting arrangements

Represented a foreign financial institution in an internal investigation and the relevant dispute

Advised a multinational cosmetics manufacturer on workforce restructuring including voluntary retirement

Advised a domestic manufacturing company on the improvement programs for underperforming employees

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