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[War Eagle]

This came up in another thread. OculisOrbis wrote:

Employers are required to immediately provide a certificate of employment whenever requested by a current or former employers (less than 3 years removed) as long as the employee has worked for more than 30 days. The employer must provide only the details that the employee requests and you dont have to complete your contract or give notice of resignation to receive it.

What is this? Can anyone at anytime request this? I am in need of some sort of proof of employment from my employer to hopefully bypass a bad refrence from them (long story).

[dorian_gray]

Yes, Oculis Orbis is totally right on this one.

From your current employer you can request a form called:

재직증명서
(proof of current employment)

From a former employer you can request a form called:

경력증명서
(work history record)

They must produce these forms immediately. It will show your name, ARC number, address and the date of your employment (usually it's on official looking letterhead of some sort). Hope this helps.

[War Eagle]

Thanks. I'll be requesting one tomorrow. Cheers.

[littlelisa]

Mine gave me one immediately but charged me 400 won... is that normal? I mentioned it was cheap of them, but didn't fight for 400 won.

[zipper]

Mine had the following info. on it.

Statement of Employment

A: School

Name of School: ......................... School

School Address: .................................................
Gyeongnam, South Korea 637-803

Phone number: ...................................

B: Teacher

Name of Teacher: .................................

Passport Number: 00000000

Nationality: UK

Period of Employment:

From: month____Date___ Year_2008___

To: month _ __Date____Year_2009___

Type of Employment: Full time

Hereby, I testify that the above teacher has worked in my school as a full time English teacher.


2009. ____



Name of Director:

Signature:

If they don't know what you are talking about or not sure what the form looks like. You could always give them an example like this one. This format has worked for the last two jobs I have applied for.

[dorian_gray]

[dorian_gray]

[rookieglobetrotter]

I am in the 10 month of my yearlong PS contract. I just asked for a certificate of employment, they said they would only write the 10 months dates: 2/25/09 to 12/10/09 and not when I am supposed to be finished 02.25.10. Are they looking to fire me beforehand or is this standard procedure?

[OculisOrbis]

you can't really have a record of employment that hasn't even been completed yet. you could ask them to provide the expected date of completion as additional info on the form if someone needs it to gauge your experience and update it when you finish. provide the complete official version to your new employer later.

[littlelisa]

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[OculisOrbis]

just make your own form. as long it is the school name, business registration #, contact info and sig stamp to make it legal, you can request whatever info you want. it's also a good idea to get it translated so that it's in korean and english

contract start date: ------------------------
contract end date: ------------------------
contract duration (#of days): ------------
# of days employed to present:----------

there is no standard form.

Examples:재직증명서
http://images.google.com/images?q=%EC%9E%AC%EC%A7%81%EC%A6%9D%EB%AA%85%EC%84%9C&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=CP4gS9jbLpH-tQPJuJSQBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQsAQwBA

Examples:경력증명서
http://images.google.com/images?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=%EA%B2%BD%EB%A0%A5%EC%A6%9D%EB%AA%85%EC%84%9C&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=N_8gS_e4O5L0sgOvytmcBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CDEQsAQwBA

[zipper]

[naturegirl321]

If the employer doesn't give you a cert of employment what can you do?