Is it difficult because of the minimum wage? Convenience, Lord, let's be honest.

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▲ At a press conference in the afternoon of December 12 , a representative of the country's Convenience Stores Association made remarks at a press conference to support the increase in the minimum wage to the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises.
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On December 12, the nationwide Convenience Stores Association (formerly known as the Intangible Assistance Coalition) stated that "the United States is the largest in the world. they will fight for closure when the minimum wage is increased. They claim that the minimum wage this year is 1060 won higher than last year, so the shareholder income is lower than Alba 's salary. He also added that the burden of labor costs is greater if you consider a night allowance of 1.5 times more.

It's hard for the minimum wage, is not it? It is difficult to get a minimum wage, because I can not get the minimum wage if the minimum wage increases this year.

However, convenience stores are a typical business place where illegal common sense was common even before the minimum wage. In a survey conducted by Alvanco in October 2017 among 402 Alba employees in convenience stores, 55% of respondents were paid less than the minimum wage. 92% did not receive a weekly allowance. There is almost no work in a convenience store that provides the minimum wage and regular vacation allowance.

In addition, additional wages, such as night allowances, do not apply to workplaces with fewer than five employees. Convenience stores are primarily those with fewer than five employees, with two or three Alba workers working weekly and every night. Convenience stores may not pay extra pay if they work at night, a second-degree carcinogen, determined by the International Cancer Institute of the World Health Organization.

If so, why were many Alba workers silent when they knew this reality? They knew better than anyone that the boss was tough. Homeowners of convenience stores are threatening to close their doors if they increase the wages of Alba workers who have worked in silence even though they know illegally. The owners of convenience stores had to be more honest. Why they are so hard.

According to the main indicators of the convenience store industry of the Korea Convenience Store, total sales of 32,611 convenience stores nationwide amounted to 20,324.1 trillion won in 2016 , an increase of about 3 trillion won compared to the previous year. Where did all that 20 trillion won go?

Let's take a look at GS25 as an example. According to this site, there are four types of contracts. Convenience stores usually take 35% of the gross profit of the head office, called G type in GS25. The facilities and the internal costs are invested by the head office, and the rents are paid by the owner. What should be noted here is the gross profit. The gross profit is the selling price minus the cost.

Even if it's a bit complicated, let's calculate it once. For example, if a store has a total gross profit of 10 million won, then 35%, or 3.5 million won, should be sent to headquarters first. That leaves 6.5 million won. Assuming that two Alba employees work five days a week on weekends, the monthly labor cost is reduced to 3 million won, and one million won is lost due to maintenance expenses such as the electricity bill.

Then, 2.5 million won should be in the hands of the owner, but here is the owner. If the owner buys 2 million won for rent, the convenience store can only get 500,000 won.

The real reason is the tyranny of "A & # 39; … The fight should be different from that of the 'A', because it is not the headquarters or the owner, and it touches the cost of easy alba work. .

However, changing the order of this complex arithmetic can also lead to dramatic changes. In the profit of 10 million won, work, rent and management fees are deducted first. That leaves 4 million won. From the shop owner's point of view, this 4 million won is the real net profit. We do not complain about giving 35% of the profits because we worked with our head office here.

Only 1.4 million won will be sent to the head office, and convenience store owners will earn 2.6 million won. Is this an absurd story? It was absurd that the convenience store's head office did not badume any liability for staff expenses or franchisee rents and took the 35% unconditionally.

In 2016, the number of convenience stores in the national franchises is 32,611. As we have seen above, it is important for us to open a store once the head office is unconditionally favorable. Of course, there is a limit of 250m. However, this restriction only applies to stores of the same brand. It can not prevent other brands from entering. This is so that the CU is located next to Seven-Eleven and Seven-Eleven next to the GS25. The result is more than 30,000 convenience stores.

Let's look at other forms of contract. The contract that GS25 headquarters introduced as a type of security (type A) is a form in which the head office borrows rents and facilities / interiors and takes 55% of the gross profit as compensation. The type of income search (type H) takes 20% of the head office in a form in which the owner is responsible for the rent and the investment cost of the installation / interior opening. The type of co-investment (type R) takes 40% of the head office, and the head office pays the rent and the costs of the facilities / interiors. In the case of continued security, the gross margin of the registered office is greater than half, and the contractual condition is such that the position of manager is suspected to be the chairman.

In the context of these unfair contracts, the status of the incumbents is closer to the manager who manages the workers of Alba. There are, of course, business stores that operate several convenience stores. But now, it matters, what should interest us, it is the management. In fact, while working for a long time, it is the people who should risk the failure of the company rather than protect the law on labor standards because of the status of the president.

So it's not fair that homeowners begin to fight headquarters and convenience store owners to improve the treatment of Alba workers and their right to survival rather than attacking them with the increase in wages of Alba workers.

This event, triggered by the minimum wage, is based on the fact that 1060 won are enough to fight between small independents and workers of Alba, or the industry of 20 trillion won, C & Is an incident. I am more interested in 20 trillion won than 1000 won.

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Additional Article | Park Jung-hoon is the author of the minimum wage of 10,000 won (Park Jong Chol Publishing Co.).