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ed4444
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ed4444
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 Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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This law definitely exists. If you do three consecutive one year contracts then subsequent contracts are just to establish conditions as you are technically a permanent worker.
However, there is a lot of small print exceptions with this law so you have to check very carefully to see if you fall within one of the loopholes.
For example I fell into a loophole because I earn more than 49,000,000Won per year. That classifies me as being in the top 20% of earners in Korea currently. Therefore, I am considered to be an "executive" and I can be kept indefinitely on rolling one year contracts unfortunately.
I was very upset to find out about this bit of smallprint because I was sure I was a permanent employee by then. |
A little update here, the Korean labour commission ruled that I was a permanent employee (they described it as an employment contract of unlimited duration) even though my salary did exceed the threshold mentioned above. So it seems the thresholds are not binding. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| ed4444 wrote: |
This law definitely exists. If you do three consecutive one year contracts then subsequent contracts are just to establish conditions as you are technically a permanent worker.
However, there is a lot of small print exceptions with this law so you have to check very carefully to see if you fall within one of the loopholes.
For example I fell into a loophole because I earn more than 49,000,000Won per year. That classifies me as being in the top 20% of earners in Korea currently. Therefore, I am considered to be an "executive" and I can be kept indefinitely on rolling one year contracts unfortunately.
I was very upset to find out about this bit of smallprint because I was sure I was a permanent employee by then. |
A little update here, the Korean labour commission ruled that I was a permanent employee (they described it as an employment contract of unlimited duration) even though my salary did exceed the threshold mentioned above. So it seems the thresholds are not binding. |
Congratulation on that!
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