Employer errors should not cost foreign workers their legal status: rights watchdog

When a foreign worker loses legal status because an employer fails to complete required procedures, the Ministry of Employment and Labor should give the worker another opportunity to obtain work authorization, South Korea’s Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission said Thursday. The opinion came in a case involving a foreign worker whose application to extend his E-9 nonprofessional work visa was denied after his employer failed to obtain the required approval for continued employment. The wo