Samsung Electronics labor and management agreed to withdraw various civil and criminal complaints, including allegations of creating a "blacklist" of employees who did not join the strike.
According to the industry on the 22nd, Samsung Electronics labor and management reached an agreement on the 20th at the Gyeonggi Regional Employment and Labor Office to withdraw various civil and criminal cases, including complaints and accusations filed amid ongoing conflict, while drawing up a performance bonus adjustment plan.
Samsung Electronics confirmed that some employees used other employees' personal information to compile and share a list containing whether they had joined the union. This led to what is commonly called the "blacklist" allegations, and Samsung Electronics filed a police complaint on the 9th of last month alleging violations of the Personal Information Protection Act. On the 16th of the same month, it filed an additional complaint, identifying an employee who had collected large amounts of employee personal information without authorization and passed it to others.
The Hwaseong Dongtan Police Station in Gyeonggi, which is handling these cases, conducted a search and seizure targeting the Giheung campus of Samsung Electronics on the 8th and expanded the compulsory investigation by conducting an additional search and seizure on the 18th. Even if the company withdraws its complaint, investigations will not immediately stop because violations of the Personal Information Protection Act or the Trade Union and Labor Relations Adjustment Act are neither offenses subject to complaint nor offenses not subject to punishment against the victim's will. However, with the union having tentatively agreed on wage negotiations and putting the strike on hold, the company's indication that it does not wish to seek punishment could affect not only the future course of the investigation but also prosecutorial indictments or court rulings.
Labor and management also agreed to consider a method under which the criteria for the performance incentive (OPI) fund would be decided by the union for the DS (semiconductors) unit and by employee referendums by business division for the DX (finished goods) unit. The DS unit's OPI is "business performance selected by labor and management through agreement" and is effectively fixed at 10% of operating profit, so it takes the form of a union decision. The DX unit's OPI can be chosen between 10% of operating profit or 20% of economic value added (EVA), hence the intent to include an internal process to gather opinions. Along with this, labor and management agreed that the company stock worth 6 million won per person to be granted to the DX unit would not be subject to a lockup period for sale, unlike the company stock paid to the DX unit as a special management performance bonus.