Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Ed Provencher]

Is there any guarantee of sick days? Is this completely up to the employer to decide?

In my school's contract, it simply says that your wages will be deducted from your paycheck and given to the substitute teacher for your sick day.

[ttompatz]

[sojusucks]

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/WEBTEXT/46401/65062/E97KOR01.htm

(website containing the Labor Standards Act)

[prairieboy]

^

The above link is of an outdated version of the LSA. For example, the severance pay article has been removed from the most recent ammendment and has been replaced by a completely new act on retirement benefits.

[Special BK]

This is from the Korean Law blog link from the previous page.
got a couple of questions for anybody who could clear it up for me...

An employer should allow a worker more than one-day holiday with pay per week on the average. (Imprisonment up to 2 years or fine up to 10 million Won)

i don't get this part

Wages are paid more than once per month on a fixed day.

does anybody get this?

An employer should grant one day's paid leave per month to a worker whose consecutive service period is shorter than one year, if the worker has offered work without absence throughout a month. (Imprisonment up to 2 years or fine up to 10 million Won)

so does this mean that paid work days are accrued on top of whatever the school gives you? cos my contract says .. X days paid leave but they actually have compulsory leave during times when the school is off.
I've had my contract recently terminated after 10 months so does that mean i *should* get 10 days paid leave?

Working hours per week should not exceed 40 (or 44) hours excluding break hours. (Imprisonment up to 2 years or fine up to 10 million Won)

working hours is counted from the time you enter the school is it? cos we had like an intensive period where we were all at work by 9 and left around 7....and if we were lucky we got like a 40 minute break?

[Korussian]

Unfortunately, the Labor Standards Act PDF referenced here by ttompatz is not searchable. It is just a scan of the original paper document.

For easier reference, I have used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to convert it into a searchable PDF, which you can get here.

Happy laboring!

http://www.dmitryvolokhov.info

[tob55]

Thank you, it works great! Good source of info for people interested in knowing their rights.

[Bread]

So, is there a KOREAN version of this somewhere that I can show my boss? She is claiming that I can be terminated immediately, with no notice.

[vincentmiser]

Yeah, ditto to that.

Is there a Korean version?

THanks

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