78% of foreign workers verbally abused at work

28.8.11

78% of foreign workers verbally abused at work: By Yun Suh-young [koreatimes.co.kr]



Nearly 80 percent of migrant workers said that they had experiences of being verbally abused at their workplaces, a survey from a rights group showed.



Out of the 931 surveyed people, 78.2 percent said that they were verbally abused, and 26.8 percent said they suffered physical abuse at work, according to a survey by the Joint Committee with Migrants in Korea (JCMK). Nearly 14 percent answered they were sexually harassed. They were allowed to make multiple answers in the survey.



The civic group has conducted the survey to measure the actual conditions of human rights abuses in Korea toward foreign migrant workers, marking the seventh year of implementing the foreigner employment permit system.



With the help of 33 member organizations around the country, the JCMK distributed surveys translated into 10 languages from May 1 to May 31, 2011.