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[trueblue]

Hello all,

Is EVERY school required to pay into pension, or must it have a certain amount of employees that remove them from that legal obligation?

[ontheway]

[trueblue]

Yeah, heard about this. I knew there was some exemption, at one point.

I'm simply trying to help someone out from back home.

Thus, if any school does not pay into the pension scheme, they are choosing NOT to obey the law....

[Weigookin74]

[EZE]

Even if you don't accept an IC contract and your employer signs you up as an independent contractor, it's impossible to get out from under that. The people at the tax office, the pension office, and the national health insurance office are cut out of the same cloth as the people at the offices who were supposed to regulate the Sewol. They won't do their jobs. They'll just tell you to talk with your boss.

[Stain]

[tob55]

Regardless of size, employers are obligated to pay into the National Pension. It also doesn't matter is the workers are full or part-time. The amount to pay is usually insignificant for most people, but employers who side step doing this may be attempting to cheat the government OR they already are cheating the government and do not want to be caught. If an employer is not paying the pension, then the employee should contact the Pension Office and file a complaint or else risk having to pay quite a bit in back-payments once things are discovered. I know this from owning and running an academy, so the comments are not based on my opinion, but on my own experience.

[CP]

HERE ARE THE FACTS STRAIGHT FROM THE PENSION OFFICE:

Persons not deemed as Workplace-based insured Persons under the following criteria are NOT required to be under the National Pension Scheme.

1. Single-day workers or workers employed for a period of less than one month.

2. Workers employed in a workplace, the location of which is not fixed.

3. Part-time workers whose contractual working hours are less than 60 hours a month.



** Also foreigners whose home countries' pension scheme exclude Korean nationals from coverage are likewise excluded from coverage under Korea's national pension scheme. **

Everyone else is obviously required to be covered by the National Pension Scheme.


I am a registered foreigner with an E-2 visa who accepted a part time job with a contract of less than 60 hours a month. I am not legally required to pay into the pension plan, nor is my employer so I won't do it. Even if the law required me to pay into the plan I would just do it myself because I am happy with my current work situation and it wouldn't be worth arguing with my boss for a little more money monthly. It's up to you to decide if it's worth fighting over or not.


The National Health Plan is no different, however every foreigner must be registered under the plan no matter what. You will even be charged for all your missed payments up until the day you sign up. Your employer does not have to provide health insurance to you either. The cost is minimal and it's not worth arguing over, if you have an excellent paying job. As I said I have an E-2 sponsor but I don't receive any basic benefits. So, I signed up for the health plan myself, get the bill directly sent to my place and I pay the bill myself. No problems.


Everyone is in a different situation - you just have to decide if it's worth fighting over at the end of the day.

[trueblue]

Thank you folks.


If you are are able to receive the pension back (but still have to pay into it anyway) and decide to stay in Korea and venture off to another school, the pension office will take what is theirs, am I right?

So, unless you are here for a "one and done year", I would say it is worth fighting for.

[Weigookin74]