The court ruled for the first time that delivery riders working through a platform that “provides dependent labor on an app basis” are also workers under the Labor Standards Act. The labor community urged that this ruling should be used as an opportunity to strengthen the responsibility of employers under the labor law of platform companies and to restart discussions on the per-unit minimum wage for piece-rate workers, which the Minimum Wage Committee recently aborted. According to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Public Transport Workers' Union on the 7th, Seoul High Court 3...