[이데일리 이재은 기자] A security worker in his 70s who complained of abuse of power in an apartment in Daechi-dong, Seoul, made an extreme choice and died.
|
Workplace Gapjil 119 reported on the 16th through the ‘Gapjil Gapjil Report’ on the 16th, in-depth interviews with a total of 9 people, including 5 security workers, 1 cleaning worker, 1 manager, and 2 mechanical staff at the management office, in October of last year. case was disclosed.
According to the report, it was revealed that nine residents experienced loud voices, insults, contempt for appearance, disparagement of low quality work, and unfair work instructions.
As for work disparagement, a case was mentioned in which a security worker heard the words, ‘If you don’t study, you become like that man.’ This security worker said, “The residents told their children, ‘Study well. If you can’t do it, you’ll be like that man,’ he said, openly demeaning.”
Some said they heard verbal abuse over the light on at the guard post, such as “If it were your house, would you leave the light on” and “Why did you hire a short and ugly person, change it right away”.
Six of them said that they had experienced ‘prima facie abuse’, such as carrying out unreasonable orders outside of work, just like the security worker in his 70s who recently died following making an extreme choice.
Security worker A said, “At the direction of the manager, I suddenly cleaned the septic tank. I worked for over an hour in a place where the manure was up to my ankles and came out, but the poison rose and I applied the medicine for over two weeks.”
In addition, when conflicts with residents occurred, there were cases in which workers were urged to be fired or their place of work was changed.
Security worker B said, “There was a case where I asked a resident to leave the car, and then he threatened to tell the management office and stop it, asking what he was saying regarding security.” Four out of nine workers received such threats of dismissal.
Workplace Gapjil 119 cited the indirect employment structure and ultra-short labor contract period as the fundamental reasons why security workers are exposed to Gapjil by residents and service companies.
All nine employees were in the form of employment in which they repeatedly signed short-term labor contracts of less than one year, and those employed by security companies had shorter contracts. Four out of five signed contracts by three-month increments and one by one-month increments.
The report also included the content that “a new employment contract is drawn up every three months, so we cannot say that this is not our job.”
Workplace Gapjil 119 emphasized the need for measures to protect related workers, such as △mandatory employment succession when changing service companies △strengthening the responsibility of tenant representative meetings △sanctions once morest residents who abuse power and △expansion of the applicable targets of the anti-harassment law in the workplace.
Workplace Gapjil 119 Labor Counselor Lim Deuk-gyun said, “The punishment imposed by the residents and management directors who committed Gapjil is too weak, and workers have to endure even Gabjil due to job insecurity.” ”he said.
