Hanwha Ocean has begun procedures to negotiate with subcontractor unions after the Seoul Administrative Court rejected its request to suspend the National Labor Relations Commission’s retrial ruling. The company posted a notice confirming bargaining requests from the Metal Workers’ Union’s Geoje-Tongyeong-Goseong Shipbuilding Subcontractor Branch and Welliv Branch on its Geoje workplace bulletin board at 3 p.m. on the 2nd. The notice period runs through October 7 and precedes negotiations when multiple unions seek bargaining. Hanwha Ocean had said it would negotiate in accordance with the court’s decision, while the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions’ Metal Workers’ Union called for immediate direct bargaining. The case is part of wider disputes under South Korea’s revised Trade Union Act, or yellow envelope law, with courts upholding notice-posting duties in some cases while granting stays in separate bargaining-unit disputes involving POSCO and Donghee Auto.