The company extended the retirement age from 58 to 60 in 2017 and introduced a wage peak system through a collective agreement, reducing base salary from age 58.Retired employees claimed the system was invalid and sought compensation for lost wages and benefits.Key Issue: Whether the wage peak provisions remained valid after the collective agreeme...

Attorneys Young-Ho Chae and Ye-Eun Kang recently succeeded in dismissing a damages claim arising from the dismissal of a director, by establishing the precedence of executive treatment regulations over the term provisions in the company’s articles of incorporation.

Attorney Kim Do-Hyung successfully represented the Chairperson of the Central Labor Relations Commission in a case that resulted in the cancellation of a remedial decision concerning unfair labor practices.

Attorney Kim Do-Hyung secured a favorable appellate ruling recognizing occupational disease in the case of a Hankook Tire employee who died after prolonged exposure to toxic substances.

The Supreme Court of Korea affirmed the appellate ruling in favor of the Korea Broadcasting Actors Union, confirming the cancellation of the Central Labor Relations Commission’s decision on bargaining unit separation.Representing the union, One Law Partners successfully argued that broadcasting actors qualify as workers under the Trade Union...

In 2012, when Korea Broadcasting System (“KBS”) refused to hold collective bargaining with the Korea Broadcasting Actors Union (“Actors Union”)―a labor union consisting of broadcasting actors―on the grounds of single-channel bargaining, etc., they moved for the National Labor Relations Commission (“NLRC”) to divi...