SEOUL, May 26 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the peak wage system introduced by a large number of local companies to gradually cut the salaries of senior workers several years before retirement.
The top court said the peak wage system is an illegal discrimination against workers on the basis of age, making the first ruling of its kind in a lawsuit filed by a former employee of a local research institute.
It noted that the peak wage system violates a clause of the Act on Prohibition of Age Discrimination in Employment and Aged Employment Promotion, which stipulates that workers and persons wanting to become workers should not be discriminated against on the basis of age without reasonable causes.
The plaintiff who joined the institute in 1991 retired honorably in 2014.
The institute introduced the peak wage system for employees over the age of 55 in January 2009 through an agreement with the labor union and the plaintiff became subject to the system in 2011.
The person started a lawsuit to demand the reimbursement of the wages lost before retirement, claiming the basic wage was reduced after a two-level fall in rank and a 49-level drop in the competency grade under the new wage system.
The issue in the litigation is whether the institute's peak wage system is in violation of the elderly employment law prohibiting discrimination against workers on the basis of age.
Both district and appellate courts have ruled in favor of the plaintiff, saying the...
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