[Alpha Biz=(Chicago) Reporter Paul Lee] A ruling has been issued that Hana Bank should pay 30 million won to the victims who were eliminated because it gave preferential treatment to certain applicants during the hiring process.

The Seoul High Court's Civil Affairs Department 15 (senior judge Yoon Kang-yeol, Chung Hyun-kyung and Song Young-bok) ruled today (2nd) that Hana Bank should pay 30 million won in a damage suit filed by A.

"Hana Bank has lowered A's score in an arbitrary way that runs counter to internal standards for reasons that are not acceptable in social norms," the court said. "It is an illegal act against A's expectations that an objective and fair hiring process will proceed."

However, he explained, "The alimony was calculated at 30 million won, considering that it could not be concluded that A would have been hired if Hana Bank did not change the score."

A, who applied for the recruitment of new employees in the second half of 2016, was named on the internal list of successful candidates through document screening, personality and aptitude tests, camp interviews and executive interviews.

At that time, the head of the HR department checked the list of successful applicants and instructed the working-level staff to "pass applicants for top universities."

In response, working-level officials posted interview scores of 14 people, including those from certain universities or applicants recommended by bank presidents, and A was finally rejected.

 

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