POSCO Union Rejects Flexible Hours Agreement, Blocking Operations

Дата публикации: 13-08-2026 18:18:25

The POSCO labor union has put the brakes on the management’s personnel operations by rejecting the agreement on the flexible working hours system with the company. The union also claimed that the company is violating the law and demanding overtime work that exceeds the upper limit of working hours.T

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The POSCO labor union has put the brakes on the management’s personnel operations by rejecting the agreement on the flexible working hours system with the company. The union also claimed that the company is violating the law and demanding overtime work that exceeds the upper limit of working hours.

The POSCO union announced on Aug. 13 that it officially notified the management through an official document on Aug. 10 of its refusal to sign a written agreement by the workers’ representative for a temporary period regarding the flexible working hours system.

The flexible working hours system is a system that meets the statutory working hours on average by increasing working hours in certain weeks and reducing them in other weeks within a certain unit period. It cannot be operated without an agreement with the workers’ representative.

The union pointed out that while union members have endured long hours of high-intensity labor due to personnel shortages, the company has broken its promise to recruit more personnel and is repeating the method of making up for the shortage with overtime labor.

POSCO has operated the flexible working hours system to respond to periods when intensive large-scale maintenance, such as repairing blast furnaces at the steelworks, is required. With the union making it official that it will reject future agreements, it appears that disruptions in production activities may occur.

In addition, the union claimed that the company only allowed working hours to be entered into the system up to the statutory limit of 64 hours under the flexible working hours system, and managed additional working hours in a separate Excel ledger to exhaust them during periods with fewer working hours.

It also pointed out that measures to comply with the statutory working hours on average by reducing working hours in other weeks instead of increasing them for a certain period, in accordance with the purpose of the flexible working hours system, were not properly implemented.

Making employees work beyond the statutory limit hours even when operating the flexible working hours system, and managing this with a separate ledger, can be a violation of the Labor Standards Act.

A union official stated, “It is a structure where employees do not write down their working hours directly, but the department collects and reflects them,” and added, “There were cases where employees could not receive allowances if the records were missed.”

The union plans to collect cases of the management’s unfair overtime work, changes in working hours, and false attendance processing through a ‘working conditions survey’ for union members, and subsequently take legal action.

In response to this, POSCO drew a line, stating that there are no illegal elements as it is complying with legal matters such as the statutory working hours limit.

Regarding concerns about production disruptions due to the refusal to agree on the flexible working hours system, it explained, “Even if there is a strike, essential personnel must be deployed, so it will be operated in a way that causes no damage to operations.”

Meanwhile, labor and management at POSCO are currently remaining deadlocked in the process of wage and collective bargaining, escalating the conflict. Ahead of the final mediation meeting of the National Labor Relations Commission on October 18, they held working-level negotiations on October 12 but failed to narrow their differences.

If the National Labor Relations Commission decides to suspend mediation, the union will secure the right to legal industrial action, making a strike possible. If an actual strike takes place, POSCO’s record of 58 years without a dispute since its foundation will be broken.

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