The purpose of the current Hiring Procedure Act is to reduce the burden of job seekers and protect their rights and interests by prescribing the matters to secure fairness in the hiring process and procedure.

However, some companies’ hiring advertisements do not include working conditions that the job seeker must know such as wage, working hours, etc., and provide only abstract and very little information, using expressions like “In accordance with corporate bylaws,” etc., thereby infringing upon the job seeker’s right to know.

According to a recent survey on employment, 72.8% of new employees in their first year with a company are considering a job transfer due to dissatisfaction with the work or the wage, which indicates that the imbalance of hiring inforamtion has intensified.

Thus, this proposal aims to strengthen the job seeker’s right to know and secure fairness in the hiring procedure by requiring the job offerer to specify the working conditions prescribed by Presidential Decree, such as wage, working hours, etc., in the hiring advertisement and subjecting those responsible for misleading or vague hiring advertisements to a fine of up to 10 million won (Article 4-2 newly inserted, etc.).

When a job offerer takes out a hiring advertisement for the purpose of finding job seekers, the advertisement shall specify working conditions prescribed by Presidential Decree such as wage, working hours, etc. (Article 4-2).