[이슈있슈 SNS]Why Dong-A Pharm’s ‘Health Bargaining Event’ Was Boycotted Instead Of The Jackpot

Dong-A Pharmaceutical, which started a women’s product discount event in conjunction with a popular YouTube show, has been embroiled in a gender discrimination controversy. Last year, in an interview for a new employee, it emerged that a female candidate was asked, ‘What do you think about receiving a lower salary than a man because a woman did not attend the military?’ Instead of buying discounted products, netizens began boycotting.

Youtube program on day 5 <네고왕 2> The sanitary napkin was released. Announcer Jang Young-ran is searching for Dong-A Pharmaceutical and negotiating a discount on sanitary napkin products. The video became a hot topic right after its release. It exceeded 1.6 million visits in 8 days.

However, on launch day, the controversy arose with a comment saying that ‘I was sexually discriminated against in the interview for a new employee last year’. “When I was interviewed at the end of last year, a person called the HR team asked me, the only interviewer, ‘Would you agree to receive a lower salary than a man’s because women don’t go to the military? ? ‘ was a comment.

On the company information site ‘Job Planet’, there is a review of the interview that says commenter A left it. Looking at the reviews, the same questions about the military that the interviewer asked the female applicants in November last year seem the same. On the other hand, the male volunteers were asked: “What unit did you serve in?”, “What was the most difficult life in the army?”, “What did you learn in the army?”

As the controversy grew, Dong-A Pharm posted an apology with a comment on the video on the 6th. Choi Ho-jin, CEO of Dong-A Pharmaceutical, said: “On November 16, 2020, during the first job interview process for new hires, it was confirmed that one of the interviewers had asked the applicant a question that made him feel uncomfortable outside of our interview manual. We apologize for this, and we bow down and apologize for causing concern to our clients. “” In addition to disciplinary action against the interviewer, we will reinforce internal interviewer training to prevent this from happening again in the future. He said: “We will review the hiring and personnel system and procedures “.

An apology posted by Dong-A Pharmaceutical via a YouTube comment. Online Community Capture

On the 8th, Mr. A again criticized Dong-A Pharmaceutical by posting a post titled ‘The Victim of Dong-A Pharmaceutical Gender Discrimination Interview’ on Kakao’s blogging platform ‘Brunch’. Mr A said: “Since we have been donating a certain amount of money each month to the Sanitary Napkin Support Project for Low Income Families, I was more satisfied with the contents of the sanitary napkins than anyone else.” He said: “At the time of the interview in November 2020, it was absurd that Dong-A Pharmaceutical, which committed sex discrimination in interviews just because I was a woman, was a sanitary napkin for women. “I was so mad at his pretense and my chi was shaking.”

They also criticized Dong-A Pharmaceutical’s clarification after the controversy over gender discrimination. At the time, an official from Dong-A Pharmaceutical told the media: “At that time, we were preparing a new personnel system that aims to improve the treatment of military writers compared to military writers at that time. He said: “We know that we asked questions related to the military to hear the opinions of the interviewees at the time, as we judge that the treatment of military writers and non-writers should be adjusted.” Mr. A noted that “we recognize that we were introducing a personnel system that favored military writers over men who were exempted from the armed forces for reasons such as women or disabilities, that is, we were introducing an internal personnel system to justify wage discrimination. “.

Mr. A also criticized that “sex discrimination” was not specified in the apology. “The person who asked the question in question was the ‘personnel team leader.’ “Dong-A Pharmaceutical was charged with violating the gender equality law on November 20, 1989, and the data shows that the gender pay gap in the company is also severe.” Is it appropriate for the times to show that we perceive gender discrimination in reality? as an ‘unpleasant experience’? “

On the 8th, a post was posted on Kakao’s blogging platform ‘Brunch’ stating that he was sexually discriminated against during an interview with Dong-A Pharmaceutical last year. Late breakfast

Mr. A asked Dong-A Pharm to sincerely apologize. He said: “Dong-A Pharm said in the apology, what they did wrong, why they were wrong, how they plan to improve the culture and practices of gender discrimination within the organization, how the leader of the HR team will be disciplined. and upcoming hiring and HR system. “You should have written how you want to review it.”

He also rejects criticism from netizens. On Twitter, “I must say that it is not a level that offends applicants, but rather it is a sexist and unfair interview.” C ”“ To address gender discrimination and how to prevent it, we need to clearly clarify how to improve it ”and other articles have been published.

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