Reports following ‘Suspicious Contract of Travel Industry Chairman’
“Businesses charge more labor costs than workers paid”
Company, “Welfare expenses are included in the labor cost”
Requests for disclosure of specific usage contents are ‘rejected’
[앵커]
YTN recently reported that companies led by the president of the travel industry have won public projects worth more than 100 billion won in the form of private contracts during the corona crisis.
As a result of the coverage, it was revealed that companies paid workers much less than the labor cost charged to the state.
It is pointed out that if you falsely claim related labor costs during the corona crisis, it may be a case of embezzlement of the national treasury.
This is an exclusive report by reporter Kim Cheol-hee.
[기자]
After the report of the travel agency president’s ‘suspicious number of contracts’ went out, YTN reporters followed reports of people who worked in related facilities.
One of them is Mr. A, who worked for regarding three months at the Life Treatment Center in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.
Person A claimed that the company charged more money to Yeongdeungpo-gu than it paid the workers.
[A 씨 / 생활치료센터 전 근무자 : 수습 기간이라서 약 3개월 동안은 350만 원 정도 원래 수령을 했고요. 감시 감독 체계가 민간 영역에서 하시는 건데 너무 소홀하지 않았나 그런 생각을 하고 있습니다.]
Is this claim of Mr. A true?
This is Mr. A’s January salary stub.
It is stated that he received 3.72 million won including tax.
However, in the statement that the company made a claim to the Yeongdeungpo-gu Office at the same time, it was stated that they had requested regarding 91 million won for the monthly labor costs for 11 people.
About 8.3 million won per person, there is a difference of more than 4 million won between the actual payment and the claimed amount.
In response, the company explained that the claim was for labor costs, but it was because not only wages, but also welfare and bonuses were included.
These items are not on the statement billed by the business.
In response, a request was made to inform the specific usage details, but the company refused, saying, ‘It has never been disclosed to the local government.’
[업체 관계자 : 복리후생, 명절 상여, 퇴직금 전환 이런 부분들이 기업은 다 안정적 운영 관리를 위해서 필요한 재원들이 있어서…. 그런 걸 다 공개할 이유는 없다고 판단합니다.]
The ward office also replied that the company did not know where and how much money it had spent on labor costs, as it had never been reported.
[서울 영등포구청 관계자 : 그것까지는 기업 내부 사정이어서 저희한테까지 보고하고, 일일이 보고하지는 않고요.]
This is not the only report on suspicious circumstances.
A person who quit his job made a paperwork as if he had worked, and charged the local government with a fee.
There are even testimonies that they saw an employee who worked only at the end of the month earning money by pretending to have worked for the entire month.
As it has been confirmed one following another that labor costs paid by the national treasury have been poorly managed, the voice for a prompt investigation is gaining strength.
[최승재 / 국민의힘 의원 : 생활치료센터 용역을 담당한 업체들이 국고를 횡령했다면 이것은 명백한 범죄라 할 수 있습니다. 관련 지자체들은 사업비가 제대로 집행됐는지 꼼꼼하게 다시 한 번 재점검해야 한다고 생각합니다.]
In addition, it is pointed out that the overall accounting treatment should be carefully reviewed to see if it is true that various expenses used for facility operation, as well as labor costs, are used transparently.
This is YTN Kim Chul-hee.
YTN Kim Chul-hee (kchee21@ytn.co.kr)
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