Court rules refusal to make disabled barista at company café a permanent employee is unfair dismissal

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1. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled that refusing to convert B, a barista with a severe physical disability working at a company café, to a permanent position constitutes unfair dismissal.
2. The court ordered the reversal of the National Labor Relations Commission's re-examination ruling, which had rejected B's application for relief.
3. The judges said the intensive counseling and occupational adaptability assessments cannot be deemed objective and reasonable, and that there is a high risk of the manager's subjective judgment intervening.

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