Workplace Safety and Serious Accidents

1. Guidelines on dealing with serious accidents

When a serious accident occurs, the site of the accident is visited by a labor supervisor from the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL), an officer from the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) and a police officer from the district department, to conduct basic investigation.

KOSHA sends its opinion on the accident to MOEL, where the relevant unit interrogates witnesses. MOEL then submits its final opinion to the prosecutors’ office based on its own investigation and on its examination of presence of any crime, the process of which is supervised by the prosecutors’ office. During this course, it is critically important to have a labor attorney’s opinion added to the data. Therefore, working with an experienced labor attorney would be extremely useful.

2. Work-Related Injury

Construction companies in many cases prefer to underreport occurrences of industrial accidents and settle them as “work-related injury”. They do so because industrial accidents affect their prequalification scores, their chances of winning a bid and their premium for insurance.

When a worker is injured, the employer may want to settle it as a work-related injury – that is, the employer proposes to resolve the matter by paying the worker a certain amount estimated to be equivalent to the insurance benefits the worker may receive for the injury or illness. This practice becomes a problem when the employer thinks that paying a certain amount to the worker or his/her family will be sufficient in resolving the accident. If both parties wish to settle the matter as a work-related injury, the compensation should be higher than the estimated benefit from the insurance authority and should reflect the possibility of side effects or recurrence.

Throughout this process of calculation, our professionals advise clients based on accurate judgment and foresight.

3. Payroll Management

Benefits of payroll outsourcing

When a worker is injured, the employer may want to settle it as a work-related injury – that is, the employer proposes to resolve the matter by paying the worker a certain amount estimated to be equivalent to the insurance benefits the worker may receive for the injury or illness. This practice becomes a problem when the employer thinks that paying a certain amount to the worker or his/her family will be sufficient in resolving the accident. If both parties wish to settle the matter as a work-related injury, the compensation should be higher than the estimated benefit from the insurance authority and should reflect the possibility of side effects or recurrence.

The company may choose to entrust its payroll management to an outside specialist, to be more focused on its business operation. Benefits from outsourcing include confidentiality of wage information, enhanced business efficiency, cost saving, professional payroll administration and minimized mistakes.

Dahyun’s professionals are specialized in carrying out this task efficiently and skillfully. We hope to increase your manpower efficiency and cost savings through our payroll service.

4. Payroll outsourcing by sector

IT

IT companies have enlarged their business sizes in a very short period of time, and they may, at any time, be suddenly overloaded with payroll tasks. Moreover, many of their employees working as freelance workers are, in strict legal terms, ordinary workers as defined by the Labor Standards Act. Due to these aspects, IT companies need to outsource their payroll management and consult specialists about their internal regulations.

Manufacturing

Manufacturers mostly have various types of incentive compensation and their workers often do more overtime or holiday work than in other sectors. Employers can design a more sensible payroll scheme by consulting specialists and can maximize their manpower output by outsourcing payroll tasks.

Franchise

Franchised chains, in many cases, directly manage their sub-franchises that are scattered all across regions. Gathering their wage-related information, e.g., hours worked by part-timers, is a highly-complicated and time-consuming job. The best solution, therefore, would be to outsource this work.

Hospitals

Hospital manpower consists of various functions, including doctors, nurses and physical therapists, and therefore needs a payroll system that incorporates the characteristics of each function. With our specialists’ help, hospitals can manage their payroll efficiently and reinforce employees’ confidentiality, especially for highly-paid doctors whose salaries vary even among peers.