[Unofficial Korean-to-English translation provided by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

"Subcontractor of Myoungshin, participant of government supported job program, lays off 40 workers," 5 January 2024

[...] On January 5, Choi Jae-seok, director of the Gunsan Irregular Labor Rights Center (hereinafter referred to as the Labor Rights Center), posted on his social media that "Daeyang Auto, an in-house subcontractor invested by Myoungshin, notified 30 workers in December last year that they would be laid off by the end of this month."

He added that the company decided to pay one month's salary for compensation to those who were laid off.

"The company had previously laid off about 10 workers in the auto body department October of last year," Choi wrote, referring to the company's partial manufacturing and assembly of Chinese-made electric vehicles and its processing and delivery of Tesla parts.

This brings the total number of workers who have been laid off or notified of layoffs to more than 40.

[...] "The layoffs of the existing subcontract workers are meant to give the work to the regular employees who came down from the [closed] Asan plant," a laid off worker said in a phone call to <Today Gunsan>.

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