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During the COVID-19 pandemic, irregular workers, workplaces with fewer than five employees, and low-wage workers suffered relatively greater losses, such as job loss and wage reduction, a survey result came out.
As a result of conducting a survey of 2,000 office workers by ‘Workplace Gapjil 119’, 17.2% of the total respondents said ‘experienced job loss following Corona 19’, but when divided by worker characteristics, it was 31.4% for non-regular workers. , which was 4.1 times higher than that of regular workers at 7.7%.
The rate of job loss among ‘workplaces with fewer than 5 employees’ was 24.7%, 2.2 times that of large corporations, and low-wage workers with less than 1.5 million won a month experienced unemployment 5.5 times that of high-wage workers with more than 5 million won a month.
During the corona epidemic, 57% of non-regular workers answered that their income has decreased, which is more than three times the rate of 16.8% of regular workers.
In addition, 44.2% of employees at small businesses with fewer than 5 employees responded that their income had decreased, more than double the number of employees at public institutions (21.8%).
