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Labor Standards Act — Article 18 (Terms and Conditions of Employment of Part-Time Employees)

근로기준법 제18조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-10-23. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-10-02) — check the Korean original.

(1) The terms and conditions of employment of part-time employees shall be determined on the basis of relative ratio computed in comparison to those work hours of full-time employees engaged in the same kind of work at the pertinent workplace.

(2) Criteria and other necessary matters to be considered for the determination of terms and conditions of employment under paragraph (1) shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree.

(3) Articles 55 and 60 shall not apply to employees whose contractual work hours per week on an average of four weeks (in cases where their working periods are less than four weeks, such period of working) are less than 15 hours. <Amended on Mar. 21, 2008>

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