Identifying eligibility
Identifying a license for the beauty arts business
- An employee engaging in the beauty arts business shall possess a beautician’s license (Main provision of Article 8(1) of the Public Health Control Act).
※ However, the license is not required cases where he/she works as an assistant in the beauty arts business under the supervision of a beautician (Proviso to Article 8(1) of the Public Health Control Act).
Conclusion of an employment contract
Employment contract
- The term "employment 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 leaves;
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 employs ten or more workers), and
7. Terms and conditions prescribed by the 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 (Article 2(1) subparagraph 8 of the Labor Standards Act).
- Anemployer shall deliver the written statement (includingelectronic documents under Subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Framework Act onElectronic Documents and Transactions) specifying constituent items,calculation methods and payment methods of wages and the matters prescribed insubparagraphs 2 through 4 to workers (main provision of Article 17 (2) of theLabor Standards Act).
Subscription to four major insurances
Duty to subscribe to four major public insurances
- “Four major public insurance” include 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 provision 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 15th day of the month subsequent to the month that the employer falls under a automatically covered workplace (Articles 11(1) and 21(1) of the National Pension Act and Appendices 3 and 6 and Articles 3 and 6 of the Enforcement Regulations of the National Pension Act).
√ Report on falling under an automatically covered workplace
√ A report of qualified workplace subscriber
√ A copy of bankbook (applicable only if you are applying for an automatic transfer)
√ A copy of business license (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)
※ Further details on the subscription to the National Pension are available on the (
www.nps.or.kr)
.
- 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, Articles 3(1) and 4(2) of the Enforcement Regulations of the National Health Insurance Act):
√ Report on falling under an automatically covered workplace (organization);
√ A copy of the bankbook (applicable only if you are applying for an automatic transfer);
√ Report on the qualified workplace subscriber;
√ A copy of business license (required only if the applicant does not agree that the National Pension Service verifies the business license and corporation registration certificate through joint use of administrative information pursuant to the Electronic Government Act).
※ Further details on the subscription to the national health insurance are available on the (
www.nhis.or.kr).
- Employment insurance and industrial accident compensation insurance
· A business owner shall report the formation of an insurance relationship to the 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 provision of Article 11(1) of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums, etc. for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance and Articles 7(1) and 16(7) 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 formation of insurance relationship;
√ A report on the entitlement to subscribe to the employment insurance and a report on the employment subject to the industrial accident compensation insurance
※ Further details on the subscription to industrial accident compensation insurance and employment insurance are available on the (
www.kcomwel.or.kr) or the (
www.ei.go.kr).
※ You may submit your documents by paying direct visits to individual institutions, or via mail or fax. You may also report via the Internet through the information center for four social insurances (
www.4insure.or.kr).
※ 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.