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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:25 pm Post subject: Korean Labor question (ttompatz) |
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I have a friend that got a text msg from his boss saying he had Thurs and Fri off this week. My wife and I work in a PS but my sister-in-law works at a hagwon and so she was curious as to why he had these days off.
Our friend said it's a law that hagwon teacher's can't work more than 20 days in a month. So if you work 5 days a week for 4 weeks then any other work days are off.
Ex. This month has 22 weekdays, he doesn't ever work on weekends, So he has worked his 20 days and now the other two days he has off.
Can anyone shed any light on this? My sister in law doesn't lie her job very much and is jumping out of her skin on this. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Labor question (ttompatz) |
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| warmachinenkorea wrote: |
I have a friend that got a text msg from his boss saying he had Thurs and Fri off this week. My wife and I work in a PS but my sister-in-law works at a hagwon and so she was curious as to why he had these days off.
Our friend said it's a law that hagwon teacher's can't work more than 20 days in a month. So if you work 5 days a week for 4 weeks then any other work days are off.
Ex. This month has 22 weekdays, he doesn't ever work on weekends, So he has worked his 20 days and now the other two days he has off.
Can anyone shed any light on this? My sister in law doesn't lie her job very much and is jumping out of her skin on this. |
No such law. Labor law requires one day of rest per week and entitles workers to 15 (calendar) days of paid annual leave.
As to why your friend got the 2 days off; ask his boss.
It is very possible that he reached his contracted class hours and his boss decided to let him have the days off instead of pay overtime for the month.
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warmachinenkorea
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Labor question (ttompatz) |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| warmachinenkorea wrote: |
I have a friend that got a text msg from his boss saying he had Thurs and Fri off this week. My wife and I work in a PS but my sister-in-law works at a hagwon and so she was curious as to why he had these days off.
Our friend said it's a law that hagwon teacher's can't work more than 20 days in a month. So if you work 5 days a week for 4 weeks then any other work days are off.
Ex. This month has 22 weekdays, he doesn't ever work on weekends, So he has worked his 20 days and now the other two days he has off.
Can anyone shed any light on this? My sister in law doesn't lie her job very much and is jumping out of her skin on this. |
No such law. Labor law requires one day of rest per week and entitles workers to 15 (calendar) days of paid annual leave.
As to why your friend got the 2 days off; ask his boss.
It is very possible that he reached his contracted class hours and his boss decided to let him have the days off instead of pay overtime for the month. |
Thanks check your pm's I've got more details that I don't wanna post here. |
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fezmond
Joined: 27 Oct 2008
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15 days paid annual leave - not including national holidays?
i've got 2 bouts of 4 days off and i'm pretty unhappy about it. is it something i should legally have (the 15 days)? |
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ssuprnova
Joined: 17 Dec 2010
Location: Saigon
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| Probably their "winter vacation". At my hagwon we get 10 days vacation: 6 up to us, 4 decided by the school. So this week we all get Thu-Fri off. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| fezmond wrote: |
15 days paid annual leave - not including national holidays?
i've got 2 bouts of 4 days off and i'm pretty unhappy about it. is it something i should legally have (the 15 days)? |
YOu might want to read the labor standards act to see just how badly you are getting it (or you might not want to - ostrich syndrome (head in the sand)).
www.moel.go.kr/english/download_eng.jsp?type=&file=(31)LABORSTANDARDSACT_2011.pdf
Article 60 (Annual Paid Leave)
(1) An employer shall grant 15 days' paid leave to a worker who has registered not less than 80 percent of attendance during one year.
(2) An employer shall 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 an absence throughout a month.
(3) In case an employer grants a worker paid leave for the first one year of his/her service, the number of leave days shall be 15 including the leave prescribed in paragraph (2), and if the worker has already used the leave prescribed in paragraph (2), the number of used leave days shall be deducted from the 15 days of leave.
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