Former Ador employee B has announced that she will file a complaint with the Ministry of Labor, pointing out Ador CEO Min Hee-jin’s biased intervention in the investigation process of her workplace bullying and sexual harassment case.
On the 16th, B mentioned three things in her interview with Ten Asia that she is preparing materials for her complaint with the Ministry of Labor: CEO Min’s biased intervention in the investigation of Hybe RW (internal ethics standards) team, workplace bullying by CEO Min and Ador Vice President A, and Ador’s unauthorized salary cut without legal basis.
On this day, Mr. B emphasized, "Representative Min is mainly explaining about sexual harassment, but my main report at the time was workplace bullying." She continued, "I plan to report to the Ministry of Labor that Representative Min neglected his duty of neutrality toward reporters of sexual harassment and workplace bullying, intervened in the investigation, and exercised her influence in a biased manner. Since I am also an employee, I will set a date to proceed even if it means taking a vacation."
She revealed that she received a call from Hybe after releasing her first statement on the 8th. She said, "I received an apology from them (Hybe) saying, 'The last investigation was insufficient, so it is clear that Representative Min intervened in the investigation, so we will conduct a fair reinvestigation and review it.'"
She also said that she received an apology from Vice President A for his comments regarding sexual harassment, colluding with Representative Min to influence the results of the RW team's investigation, and for workplace bullying in general. She explained the apology she received from Vice President A, saying, "If we look only at the sexual harassment incident, Mr. A did not say, 'I did it 100%,' but he admitted it to a large extent given the circumstances. If we look at the content of the apology, it included workplace bullying in general, including sexual harassment."
Meanwhile, Mr. B said that after posting her first statement on the 8th, she contacted Representative Min first to request her training evaluation data. She firmly stated, "I plan to use it as data to report to the Ministry of Labor. Didn't Representative Min say 'I didn't do my job' as her defense logic? This is evidence that will weaken that logic."
Regarding the training evaluation data, Mr. B confessed, "Out of the five evaluators, two were deputy representatives and three were colleagues I've worked with for half a year. Except for Deputy Representative A, they all gave me 'highly recommended' or 'recommended' evaluations. However, only Deputy Representative A, who had worked with me for only a month, gave me the lowest score."
Mr. B also revealed that when she resigned, she was asked by Ador to "accept a 40% salary cut if you don't want to resign," which was also what she reported to the Ministry of Labor. Mr. B explained that this was "a salary cut without legal basis that was not even mentioned in the employment contract." She claimed, "It's not even a 10% salary cut, but a whopping 40% cut, which is high enough to be legally problematic even if it was agreed upon as a special provision at the time of the employment contract. Also, there was no mention of the possibility of a salary adjustment at the time of the contract."
She also added, "Revealing my salary in the statement on the 13th is also a violation of the Personal Information Protection Act. Representative Min disclosed the arbitrary reason for reducing my salary without my consent." "Furthermore, my salary when I was hired was not exceptional treatment. Rather, I joined Ador after receiving a partial salary cut. I joined Ador out of my fandom for Representative Min."
Person B expressed her grievance, saying, "I find it absurd that people are talking about timing and asking if Hybe ordered me to do so." She explained, "Of course, Hybe might like me to make the Representative Min issue public. That's why I admit that people might misunderstand that I was instigated by Hybe. But I'm not the type to act just because someone tells me to. I came forward because I felt so wronged."
She said, "The reason I held back until now was because I wasn't directly harmed. But on July 31, Representative Min made public a conversation she had with me without my consent. Everything from the date of my resignation to my conflict with Vice President A and even my tone of speech are clues that can be used to identify me. Even overseas advertisers who saw Representative Min's statement contacted me. I thought I couldn't bear it anymore," she said about what led her to make it public.
In the meantime, Mr. B said, "I was surprised that in the long statement, there was absolutely no mention of the intervention during the investigation, cursing, coaching, and posting on KakaoTalk without permission that I had pointed out. I expected that he would avoid the issue, but I think she should tackle it head on."
Mr. B continued, "Even if Representative Min's rebuttal is posted, I don't think I will have any more statements. I plan to focus on responding to the Ministry of Labor and legal action." She added, "So many people, from domestic and foreign clients to acquaintances, sent me messages of support. Thanks to that, I think I wasn't too discouraged by malicious comments. There is a group that keeps posting the same malicious comments to me, so I hope they will stop."
Representative Min previously denied allegations of covering up an internal sexual harassment case through long statements on July 31 and July 13. In the process, she disclosed Ms. B's annual salary and repeatedly emphasized that she "wasn't able to do her job." In addition, there was also a nuance that Mr. B's objection was at the instigation of Hybe.
In response, Mr. B posted rebuttals on her Instagram account on the 8th and 14th. Through two statements, Mr. B pointed out Representative Min's biased intervention in the RW team investigation.
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