The labor-management agreement seems to have ended the’performance pay controversy’, but it is still suffering from my heartbreak. The full-time unions under the KCTU, which participated in the labor-management consultations, consist of production workers, and there is strong opposition from the technical office workers (research and development workers) unions under the KCTU that did not participate. There is not a lot of atmosphere among technical office workers to’deal Hynix’ regardless of the outcome of the labor-management agreement.
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Once it was locked… R&D centered rebellion castration
According to SK Hynix on the 9th, the management will hold a briefing session on the issue of incentives for the technical office workers under the KCTU on this afternoon. The Technical Office Workers’ Union was established in 2018 with a focus on research and development jobs with college graduates and is not a formal bargaining organization. The full-time (productive) unions under the Korean Trade Union Union in Icheon and Cheongju are official bargaining organizations.
It is also the full-time union that reached an agreement with the management on the 4th. At that time, the labor and management decided to change the index for calculating excess profit distribution (PS) from economic value-added (EVA) to operating profit. In addition, based on the approval of the board of directors, the company decided to provide employee stock ownership equivalent to 200% of the basic salary, and to provide 3 million in-house welfare points.
As the fact of the labor-management agreement became known to the public, SK Hynix’s’performance pay controversy’ seemed to be ending, but the conflict still persists, centered on research and development positions. Of the approximately 28,000 members of SK hynix, technical office workers account for more than half of 15,000. It is known that around 1,000 people have joined the technical office workers’ union.
First of all, most of the reactions were that the result of the agreement of the full-time union was a half-off. However, since the technical office workers’ union is not a formal bargaining body, it has no choice but to follow the results of this agreement. One SK Hynix employee pointed out that “our stockholders and users that have not been able to sell for years are deceived as limited welfare points.” “We have not been able to find out the basis for calculating EVA (economic added value) linked to performance pay.”
“Even if I give more, I will escape”… Concerns about’Exodus’
In particular, there is strong backlash against the’self-design’ system introduced in 2018. In the case of production workers, incentives are distributed equally, but technical office workers receive a differential distribution according to the’self-design’ system. The self-design system is a system in which executives can adjust the rate of increase in basic pay and the rate of incentive pay according to the performance of each department. The union claims that the system not only caused annual salary cuts, but was introduced without the consent of employees from the beginning, and is currently preparing a group lawsuit. On the other hand, the management is confronting that the self-design system was introduced after sufficient discussion with the employees.
Inside SK hynix, there is a lot of atmosphere to leave the company regardless of the outcome of the labor-management agreement. Samsung Electronics, a rival, is recruiting experienced jobs in the DS division (semiconductor) by the 22nd of this month. In particular, there are concerns that’Hynix Exodus’ is taking place due to the high proportion of research and development jobs that are highly repulsive in SK Hynix. One SK Hynix employee said, “Everyone has already left their hearts,” and said, “More than half of the employees will leave no matter what the company does.” Another SK Hynix employee said, “By 2018, they promised to guarantee a similar salary level for rival Samsung Electronics or even 10 won more. I regret that I believed that and joined the company.”
The labor union of technical office workers meets with the management on the issue of incentives this afternoon, but this meeting is not a discussion, but a’information session’. watching. An official from the union explained, “Because it is not a bargaining organization, the results of the labor-management agreement cannot be reversed.” “First, we will propose abolition of the self-design system and prepare future countermeasures according to the management position.”