(1) If provided in a collective agreement or consented by employers, workers may be engaged in affairs of the trade union without providing work specified in their employment contracts, while receiving wages from the employers or the trade union. <Amended on Jan. 5, 2021>
(2) Workers who receive wages from an employer under paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "time-off workers") may conduct affairs prescribed by this Act or other statutes, such as consultation or bargaining with the employers, grievance settlement, or industrial safety activities, and affairs of maintenance and management of a trade union for a healthy development of labor-management relations without loss of wages, within the maximum time-off limit prescribed in Article 24-2 set for each business or place of business, in consideration of the number of trade union members who are employed workers (hereinafter referred to as "maximum time-off limit"), etc. <Amended on Jan. 5, 2021>
(3) An employer shall not restrict legitimate trade union activities of workers engaged in the affairs of the trade union pursuant to paragraph (1). <Added on Jan. 1, 2010; Jan. 5, 2021>
(4) The collective agreement or a consent by an employer that stipulates the contents that exceed the maximum time-off limit in violation of paragraph (2) shall be null and void to that extent. <Amended on Jan. 5, 2021>
(5) Deleted. <Jan. 5, 2021>[Title Amended on Jan. 5, 2021]