In the interview, the head of HR team asked, “Do you agree to the low salary of the female unwritten woman?”
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Dong-A Pharmaceutical “Apologizes for the discomfort”… Parties “Organization-wide culture”
In the process of hiring new employees last year, Dong-A Pharm was hit by the fact that it was known to the applicants,’Will women agree to receive a lower salary than men because they do not go to the military?’ The company decided to take disciplinary action against the interviewer who made such remarks and tried to clarify it, but the controversy is not subsided by re-criticizing that the parties have “admitted that they are building an in-house personnel system to justify wage discrimination.”
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Military questions to women in interview… From the disclosure of the party to the boycott
On the morning of the 8th, Kakao’s blog platform’Brunch’ posted an article titled “I am a victim of a gender discrimination interview with Dong-A Pharmaceutical.” The author said, “I am the victim of sex discrimination in the interview for a new employee of Dong-A Pharmaceutical on November 16, 2020.” I couldn’t help but write,” he started writing.
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On the 5th, the YouTube channel’Negowang’, which visits companies such as daily necessities and food, and negotiates prices, revealed the contents of negotiating discount sales of sanitary napkins in search of Dong-A Pharmaceutical. This video became a hot topic with over 1.5 million views in four days. However, the problem grew as a netizen commented on the video that he had seen an interview with Dong-A Pharmaceutical last year.
According to netizen A, in the interview held in November last year, the head of the HR team of this company, who participated in the interview, asked Mr. A, the only female interviewer, “Will women agree to get a lower salary than men because they don’t go to the military?” What I did. After A’s comment was added, comments with similar contents continued in the video. Since then, since the product in this video is a woman’s product, a boycott movement has continued, centering on some netizens.
As the situation became serious, CEO Ho-jin Choi, who appeared in’King Nego’, directly commented on the comment window, “As a result of checking the contents related to the comments, one of the interviewers in the first practical interview process of hiring new employees in November 2020 displeased the applicant by leaving the interview manual. It was confirmed that you asked a question that made you feel like it,” he apologized. CEO Choi said, “We sincerely apologize to the applicants, and bow down and apologize for causing concern to customers with this case. In this regard, we will reinforce the disciplinary action for the interviewer and internal training for the interviewer in the future.” Said.
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Dong-A Pharm “I will discipline interviewers”… Participant “Problems of organizational culture, not individual interviewees”
As the apology came up and the controversy grew, Dong-A Pharmaceutical explained that it was intended to reflect on the improvement of the system by asking for opinions on the additional points of military writers, which were issues at the time in the process of reorganizing the company’s personnel system, but Mr. A said, “Wages “It’s a form of acknowledging that it was establishing an in-house personnel system to justify discrimination.” It is explained that the issue of the conscription system and the additional points of the military is an attempt to verify the candidate’s political thoughts because it is a socially large logic. Regarding this, Dong-A Pharmaceutical said, “We asked for an opinion on the improvement of the wage gap between the two countries in a situation where the treatment of military writers was higher than that of military writers.”
Dong-A Pharmaceutical plans to take disciplinary action against the interviewer who made the remarks in question. Dong-A Pharmaceutical said, “In the interview process, the interviewer was disciplinary for failing to comply with the interview manual, which contains information that should not be avoided, such as questions that may cause gender discrimination misunderstandings, and blasphemy of personality, which caused sexual discrimination without considering the interviewee’s position. We will hold a committee to determine the level of disciplinary action.”
However, the controversy is unlikely to fade easily. This is because the interviewer who made the remarks in question is the’personnel team leader’ who creates the interview manual. Mr. A said, “(After the incident), Dong-A Pharmaceutical, which did not respond at all when raising a problem with Job Planet, sent a text message (sorry) when the controversy grew. “The person who asked the question in question was one of the interviewers. He pointed out that the fact that he was the head of the HR team, not the name, and that the head of the HR team had sex discrimination during the hiring process suggests that sex discrimination is not irrelevant to the culture of the entire organization.
/ Reporter Ji-hye Seo [email protected]
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