EBS fired a freelance announcer who worked for 9 years...Losing the appeals court, too.

The court has again ruled that the EBS measure, which notified freelance announcers who have worked for nine years of dismissal, is unfair dismissal.

The Seoul High Court ruled that EBS lost the plaintiff in a lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Commission to cancel a retrial of unfair dismissal relief.

The court explained that EBS's claim is not much different from the first trial, and that the original judgment is justified even if the additional evidence is examined.

Mr. A, who has been working as a freelance announcer at EBS since 2012, was notified of his dismissal in 2021 due to the expiration of the contract period.

Mr. A applied for relief to the Gyeonggi Provincial Labor Commission, saying the notice was unfair dismissal, and the Gyeonggi Labor Commission cited the request for relief.

However, EBS objected to this and filed a retrial with the National Labor Relations Commission, and when the National Labor Relations Commission ruled in favor of A, it filed a lawsuit asking for the cancellation of the National Labor Relations Commission's decision.

The first trial court judged that the termination of the contract constitutes unfair dismissal, saying that it should be considered as an indefinite contract worker under the fixed-term law from April 2014, two years after A joined the company.