Min Hee-jin Faces Workplace Harassment Fine, Plans to Appeal
Mar 25, 2025
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The Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office's Western Branch (Labor Office) judged on the 18th that some of Min's remarks in connection with former employee A's workplace harassment complaint against Min constituted workplace harassment.
Accordingly, the Labor Administration gave former representative Min prior notice of the decision to impose a fine. According to the relevant regulations, fines for workplace harassment can be imposed up to 5 million won.
In addition, the Korea Labor Administration also saw that former CEO Min intervened in the case in connection with A's in-house report on former Vice President B.
The fact that former CEO Min contacted former Vice President B regarding the internal investigation of the case and mentioned to the chief executive that the contents of the report were unilateral and biased was a violation of the objective investigation obligation
The Korea Labor Administration, which judged that it violated its objective investigation obligations under the Labor Standards Act, also gave Ador prior notice of the decision to impose fines.
However, regarding the sexual harassment issue that Mr. A raised to former deputy representative B, the administration was terminated as it was deemed not to be applicable to the matter of violation of the Men-Women Employment Equality Act.
On the 24th, Mr. A received a notice of the results of the Labor Administration by registered mail on his account"I've given you about four chances to apologize so you can finish all this, but it's you who sued me because you didn't." I don't need an apology anymore. I'll work hard to deal with the remaining civil and criminal cases," he wrote.
On the other hand, former representative Min is in a position to proceed with the objection process to the judgment of the fine. Former representative lawyer Min told Monthly Chosun on the 24th that "the facts before and after the remarks judged as workplace harassment were wrongly recognized, and it was confirmed that the law of the Labor Standards Act related to workplace harassment and objective investigation obligations was misunderstood."
He added that "the formal objection procedure will be carried out sequentially, such as submitting an opinion to the administrative agency, and the exact truth of the petition case will be identified and the wrongdoing will be cleared.'
Earlier in August last year, A filed a complaint with the Ministry of Employment and Labor, claiming the biased intervention of former CEO Min's workplace harassment and sexual harassment cases. He also sued former CEO Min on charges of defamation and violation of the Personal Information Act and filed a lawsuit for damages. Mr. A claims that former representative Min sat on the sidelines despite former deputy representative B's remarks on bullying and sexual harassment against him.
However, Min assumed that the allegations raised by A were aimed at trying to drag him down from the representative of Audor and called them `attacks of distortion of facts and false facts.'
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