[Newsmaker] Labor Day rallies held nationwide, ILO conventions at issue
Social affairsMay 1, 2019
Tens of thousands of South Korean workers marked Labor Day with a rally in central Seoul on Wednesday, urging the government to adopt major international regulations on promoting labor rights.Commemorating International Workers' Day simultaneously, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, an umbrella labor union, said it's urgent for the country to ratify key conventions of the International Labor Organization. (Yonhap)But business lobby groups here have claimed it's premature to do so, citing