Hanwha Aerospace officially apologizes for controversy over hiring guidelines for experienced workers... The person responsible will be disciplined

Representative Lee Bu-hwan’s official apology… The person responsible for distributing the guidelines will be disciplined.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Ha-na = Hanwha Aerospace officially apologized for the controversy over the ‘experienced employee recruitment guidelines’ that recently arose. In addition, we reaffirmed the 'principle of open recruitment without discrimination' and decided to discipline the person responsible and prepare measures to prevent recurrence.

Lee Bu-hwan, CEO of Hanwha Aerospace, posted an apology on the company's website on the 27th and said, "As a company that must fulfill its social responsibilities through fair recruitment, it should never be possible for a guideline to be created that includes content that could limit an applicant's opportunities due to personal conditions such as educational background or age that are unrelated to the performance of the job."

On the 16th, the Ministry of Employment and Labor began supervising suspicions that Hanwha Aerospace created guidelines restricting age and school background while hiring experienced employees and sent them to human resources executives and recruiters for each business division.

In his apology, CEO Lee said, "This was an act that directly undermined the basic principles of 'open recruitment' and 'providing fair opportunities' that Hanwha Aerospace has been pursuing," and added, "We are taking this situation very seriously."

Representative Lee continued, “This issue is a clear mistake in distributing incorrect guidelines to the field without collecting internal opinions and conducting thorough verification,” and emphasized, “We will severely warn and discipline the relevant departments and managers who established and distributed the guidelines.”

According to Hanwha Aerospace, CEO Lee found out last month that the human resources manager had written guidelines for hiring experienced workers that specified universities and age groups, and sent an email to all employees of the human resources organization and business managers and department heads earlier this month, warning those involved sternly and saying that inappropriate hiring will not be tolerated.

Hanwha Aerospace explained, “The controversial guidelines for hiring experienced workers were confirmed to be personal deviations from the personnel manager and have never been implemented.” Hanwha Aerospace's position is that when recruiting experienced workers, the recruitment process has been conducted targeting talented people from various schools and age groups.

The company has currently referred the person responsible for creating the guidelines to the personnel committee and is in the process of disciplinary action.

Hanwha Aerospace has decided to closely analyze the future hiring process and make comprehensive improvements if any problems are found. In addition, we plan to strengthen fair hiring training for all executives and employees to establish a non-discriminatory hiring culture.

CEO Lee emphasized, “Fair hiring is the most basic justice and duty that companies must provide to society,” and added, “We will use this incident as a painful lesson and manage to ensure that such unreasonable discrimination does not occur again.”