Following an prolonged back-and-forth this month with an ex-ADOR worker over the dealing with of her sexual harassment/energy harassment case, the newest in the HYBE/ADOR mess is Min Hee Jin is being changed as CEO of ADOR, with Kim Joo Younger taking up and Min Hee Jin remaining because the producer for NewJeans.
On August 27, we held a board assembly and appointed Kim Joo Younger, ADOR’s inner director, as the brand new CEO.
The newly appointed CEO Kim Joo Younger, is an HR professional with expertise in numerous industries and shall be liable for stabilizing and reorganizing ADOR’s inner construction.
Former CEO Min Hee Jin has stepped down from the CEO place however will proceed to function an inner director of ADOR. She may even proceed her position in producing NewJeans.
Moreover, ADOR’s inner group will now separate manufacturing and administration. That is in step with the multi-label operation precept that has persistently been utilized to all different labels, though ADOR had beforehand been an exception the place the CEO oversaw each manufacturing and administration.
With this personnel and organizational restructuring, ADOR plans to completely help the expansion and higher success of NewJeans.
Whereas ADOR describes the occasion as if Min Hee Jin willingly did this, her facet says it was a unilateral resolution.
Following the assertion from ADOR, a consultant of Min Hee Jin said, “[Min Hee Jin] was out of the blue notified on Saturday, [August] 24 {that a} board assembly could be held on [August] 27 concerning a change within the CEO place, and he or she attended the assembly through cellphone name on [August] 27.”
The consultant continued, “The choice to dismiss CEO Min Hee Jin was made unilaterally with out her consent, which is a transparent violation of the shareholder settlement.”
“The corporate introduced that CEO Min Hee Jin would proceed producing for NewJeans, however this was not mentioned along with her and is a unilateral notification from the corporate,” they added.
Properly …. certain appears like they’re more likely to problem this legally in the identical method that the momentary injunction was earlier than, claiming a violation of the shareholder’s settlement.
In order that’s the breaking information.
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However going again to the sexual harassment/energy harassment case, as talked about there’s been so much that’s been stated, although it doesn’t look like a lot has modified.
On August 13, Min Hee Jin wrote a prolonged assertion the place she contains the content material of the sexual harassment grievance and the work harassment grievance. She basically frames the difficulty as a highly-paid but incompetent worker filed frivolous complaints as retaliation for getting her pay lower. She additionally questions the motives behind all of this showing now, in fact implying HYBE is behind it.
The subsequent day, the employee responded, clarifying the sexual harassment grievance and denying that she was incompetent, claiming she obtained help from different workers at ADOR. She defined that she reported seven instances of office harassment and one case of sexual harassment with proof, and that it’s ADOR who has the ultimate say as her employer, so counting on HYBE is already neglecting her responsibility as CEO. She additionally denied she’s focusing on Min Hee Jin, as HYBE apologized and promised to reinvestigate — she has submitted 11 extra cases with proof for the reinvestigation — the manager apologized as effectively, whereas Min Hee Jin despatched her 77 messages over KakaoTalk insulting her.
The aforementioned apology from the manager to the worker was most necessary, because it allegedly concerned an apology for inappropriate feedback and admitted to colluding with Min Hee Jin within the investigation. Nonetheless, the manager then allegedly retracted their apology, and he claimed it wasn’t retracted as a result of it was being misinterpreted to start with and hinted at authorized motion. The worker then responded, denying his claims.
The worker then revealed they’ll be submitting a civil and prison lawsuit in opposition to Min Hee Jin for violating the Labor Requirements Act in addition to the Data Safety Act, and intends to report the manager to the Ministry Of Employment And Labor for mistreatment within the office and irrational conduct.
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Phew.
That’s so much, and it looks like there shall be extra to return.
Editor’s Observe: Whoever it was within the feedback not too long ago that wished for extra motion so I must return to the studying mines, curse you!