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Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-family Balance Assistance Act — Article 11 (Retirement age, retirement, and dismissal)

남녀고용평등과 일ㆍ가정 양립 지원에 관한 법률 제11조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-10-01. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-09-18) — check the Korean original.

(1) No employer shall discriminate on grounds of gender in the retirement age, retirement, or dismissal of their employees.

(2) No employer shall enter into an employment contract that provides that the marriage, pregnancy, or childbirth of female employees constitutes grounds for retirement.[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 21, 2007]

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