South Korea: Older Workers’ Low-Paid, Precarious Work

Click to expand Image A “recruitment bulletin board” at a job fair for older people in Suwon, near Seoul, South Korea, October 2019. © 2019 YONHAP/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers, forcing them to retire from main jobs and into low-paid, precarious work.Inadequate social security compounds this loss of income, creating a system that punishes workers for getting older.The government should abolish the mandatory retirement age of 60 or older and the “peak wage” system and review re-employment and social security…

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