Our company is composed of full-time employees, part-time employees, and outsourced staff.
Outsourcing is legally regulated.
Security guards, drivers, and such can be hired from outsourcing companies.
But...
Our company has exactly 1 outsourced employee,
a security guard.
The outsourced employee is not contractually our employee.
Our company contracts with an outsourcing company,
and that company sends us employees.
Lately, I've been in deep (?) anguish because of that outsourced employee.
Every payday, we send money to the outsourcing company.
It's the employee's salary plus the fee (?) that the outsourcing company takes.
Our company's motto is to handle all labor issues strictly in accordance with labor law without shortcuts.
We follow what the law dictates unconditionally.
Currently, the local employee's base salary is around 5.5 million.
But...
Just in case, I asked the general affairs manager.
I asked if the outsourced security employee was receiving their salary properly.
As expected...
The employee who should be receiving a 5.5 million base salary was receiving less than that.
Because I knew that quite a few outsourcing companies do that,
I asked just in case, and sure enough, it was the case.
Legally, there's no problem with our company.
We didn't contract directly with the security employee but with the outsourcing company,
and we've paid the correct amount each month as the law dictates.
Upon further inquiry, we send both the monthly salary and a Ramadan bonus,
but the security employee had a contract with the outsourcing company without a Ramadan bonus.
This is where my anguish begins.
The outsourcing company owner is called a 'preman' in this country's language.
In Korean, he's sort of a gangster-like guy.
I want to provide fair salaries and Ramadan bonuses to all employees at our company.
I called in the general affairs manager.
I explained my intention.
When the outsourcing contract ends, hire that security guard as a contracted employee of our company.
He said that won't work.
Not only is there a contract with the outsourcing company,
he says they patrol the factory once a week in case someone like me exists.
So... change the outsourcing company to one that calculates salaries correctly.
If we do that, the friend who is the security guard now will lose his job or
will end up working for another place at a lower wage.
If that won't work either...
Call in the outsourcing company owner.
I'll meet with him and order proper wage payment.
That won't work either.
Since the company owner is a gangster, if he finds out that the fact of the employee receiving lower wages becomes known...
there's a high possibility he will harm the employee who is the security guard.
With these rotten bastards still running the show...
I can't use unaccounted funds from the company to make up for the insufficient salary, and
I don't want to use my own money.
Sigh...
