Confirmation of qualifications
Identifying a license for the beauty arts (skin) business
- An employee engaging in the skin care business shall possess a beautician’s (skin) license (Main body of Article 8(1) of the Public Health Control Act).
※ However, the license is not required in cases where he/she works as an assistant in the beauty arts business under the supervision of a beautician (skin) (A provision of Article 8(1) of the Public Health Control Act).
Conclusion of an employment contract
Employment contract
- The term "labor contract" means a contract which is entered into in order that a worker offers work for which the employer pays its corresponding wages (Subparagraph 4 of Article 2(1) of the Labor Standards Act).
Creation and delivery of an employment contract
- An employer shall state the following matters clearly (Article 17(1) of the Labor Standards Act and Article 8 of the Enforcement Decree of the Labor Standards Act).
1. Wages
2. Contractual work hours
3. Holidays
4. Annual paid leave
5. Terms and conditions relating to the place of employment and the job assigned
6. Matters set forth in the rules of employment written pursuant to Article 93 of the Labor Standards Act (only applicable to employers who ordinarily employ ten or more workers)
7. Terms and conditions as prescribed in dormitory rules (only applicable to cases where workers are accommodated in a dormitory attached to the workplace)
※ The term "contractual work hours" means work hours on which workers and their employer have made an agreement within the limit of work hours (Subparagraph 8 of Article 2(1) of the Labor Standards Act).
- An employer shall deliver the written statement(including electronic documents) specifying constituent items, calculation methods, and payment methods of wages, and matters prescribed in Subparagraphs 2 through 4 to workers (Main body of Article 17(2) of the Labor Standards Act).
Subscription to four major public insurances
Duty to subscribe to four major public insurances
- “Four major public insurance” includes national pension, national health insurance, industrial accident compensation insurance, and employment insurance, and business establishments that employee workers shall subscribe to four major public insurances (Article 8 of the National Pension Act, main body of Article 6(2) of the National Health Insurance Act, Article 8 of the Employment Insurance Act, and Article 6 of the Industrial Accident Compensation Act).
Reporting on the subscription to the four major public insurances
- National pension
· An employer shall submit the following documents to the National Pension Service by the 15th day of the month subsequent to the month in which the employer falls under an automatically covered workplace (Article 21(1) of the National Pension Act and Article 3 and Attached Form 3 of the Enforcement Regulations of the National Pension Act).
√ A report of workplace as falling under the category of automatically covered workplace
√ A copy of the bankbook (applicable only if you are applying for an automatic transfer)
√ A copy of certificate of business registration (the National Pension Service verifies the business license and corporation registration certificate through joint use of administrative information pursuant to the Electronic Government Act, and this is required only if the applicant does not agree to such verification)
- National health insurance
· Where a workplace becomes an automatically covered workplace that uses employee(s), the workplace shall submit the following documents to the National Pension Service within 14 days thereafter (Subparagraph 1 of Article 7 of the National Health Insurance Act, Article 3(1), Article 4(2), Attached Form 2 and Attached Form 6 of the Enforcement Regulations of the National Health Insurance Act).
√ A declaration of workplace as falling under the category of automatically covered workplace (organization)
√ A copy of the bankbook (applicable only if you are applying for an automatic transfer)
√ Workplace subscribers qualification report
√ A copy of certificate of business registration (required only if the applicant did not agree to the part where the National Pension Service verifies the business license and corporation registration certificate through joint use of administrative information pursuant to the Electronic Government Act)
- Employment insurance and industrial accident compensation insurance
·A business owner shall report the formation of an insurance relationship to the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (COMWEL) with the following documents within 14 days from the date the insurance relationship is formed if he/she becomes an insurance policyholder automatically pursuant to the Employment Insurance Act or the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act within 14 days from the date the insurance relationship is formed (Main body of Article 11(1) of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums, Etc. for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance and Article 7(1), and the former part of Article 16-6 of the Enforcement Regulations of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums, etc. for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance).
√ A declaration on the formation of insurance relationship (Attached Form 2 of the Enforcement Regulations of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums, Etc. for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance)
√ A report on the entitlement to subscribe to employment insurance and a report on employment subject to the industrial accident compensation insurance (Attached Form 22-5 of the Enforcement Regulations of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums, Etc. for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance
※ If you report the four major social insurances (health insurance, national pension, industrial accident compensation insurance and employment insurance) through a joint form, they will be all handled as a single report without the need to report to each of the four social insurance institutions.