Korean Small Business Owners Want a Lower Minimum Wage for Foreign Workers
What this will lead to is small business owners hiring foreigners instead of Koreans that will ultimately create higher unemployment:
Small business owners want the government to introduce a lower minimum wage for foreign workers in Korea.
At Monday’s public hearing on next year’s minimum wage in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, representatives of employers said “steep” minimum wage hikes over the past two years have pushed many small businesses to the edge and that the government should help them by adopting a “different” wage system for foreign workers.
Song Young-soo, a small business owner in Gwangju, was among participants who reportedlyvoiced the need for a lower minimum wage for foreign employees, who they say show lower labor productivity than Korean workers mainly because of communication problems.
According to a Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business survey early this year, the productivity of an average foreign worker (E-9 visa holder) was 87.5 percent of a Korean worker.
Korea Times
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Why are there so many people who cannot understand supply and demand?
“…voiced the need for a lower minimum wage for foreign employees, who they say show lower labor productivity than Korean workers mainly because of communication problems.”
The communication problem lies with the employer.
I have no problem maintaining high productivity from my foreign workers.
I find a lead-filled rubber sap communicates well with workers from many diverse countries and cultures; and truly motivates them to achieve high productivity.
Further, sustained sexual violence motivates both women and men to accomplish unrealistic productivity goals and willingly accept sub-standard payment.
It is hard to understand what all the fuss is about.
Ban all foreign workers, and don’t pay unemployment to Koreans. All those factory jobs will get filled.
Once again Korean racial bias rears it’s ugly head. The next step will be a law that Japanese workers are not paid at all, after all that happened 100 years ago! Commie moon pie needs to quit trying to turn the ROK into a workers paradise…