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prufrock
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: korea vs japan: contract breaking penalties? |
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| I'm leaving Korea for Japan in a few months. In Japan, are you allowed to change employers before your contract is completed? Any penalties? Thanks a lot for any input. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: korea vs japan: contract breaking penalties? |
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| prufrock wrote: |
| I'm leaving Korea for Japan in a few months. In Japan, are you allowed to change employers before your contract is completed? Any penalties? Thanks a lot for any input. |
1. yes
2. Only if you quit your job without giving any nootice.
Fines are capped at 10% of monthly income (lateness, not giving notice etc) |
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Glenski
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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There are also the intangible penalties of losing face (you as well as other foreigners, or just those of your nationality), as well as the "penalty" that some employers won't hire people who have quit their jobs short of completing a contract.
Plus, if there was any year-end bonus, you will not get that. |
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prufrock
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: Whose time ruler we talkin bout here? |
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| Sounds reasonable. Korea's a nightmare. What is considered an adequate notification time legally for Japan? 2 week's notice? Thanks for help. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:45 am Post subject: Re: Whose time ruler we talkin bout here? |
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| prufrock wrote: |
| Sounds reasonable. Korea's a nightmare. What is considered an adequate notification time legally for Japan? 2 week's notice? Thanks for help. |
Its not really what is "reasonable" but what ever is written on your contract. You are supposed to give whatever notice that is written but some employers, knowing a new employer will not hold out forever ask for 3 months notice. For a person in their first year of a contract common courtesy demands at least a month's notice. Your employer can not prevent you from quitting your job or penalising you for doing so (legally).
Some employers threaten to fine you or withhold pay but technically these are illegal unless he can prove you cause financial damage by not giving enough notice. No one has ever been successfully sued by an employer for giving a months notice. People in their second year of a renewed or non-limited term contract (after 2 or 3 yearly renewals technically you have to be hired permanently and its much harder to fire you) can give 2 weeks notice. |
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prufrock
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. |
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