Carmaker GM Korea Co.’s CEO and four executives face charges of illegally hiring 1,719 manufacturing workers on secondment, the Yonhap news service reported Tuesday. The district prosecutors' offices in Incheon and Changwon said five GM Korea executives, including CEO Kaher Kazem, have been indicted without physical detention on charges of violating the local law aimed at protecting temporary agency workers. The executives are accused of hiring the workers from staffing firms to work at Korean factories from September 2017 to December 2019. The workers were assigned to the factories’ main production lines involving auto body assembly and painting, where hiring of temporary agency workers is prohibited. Another 23 executives from outsourcing firms have also been indicted.