The Supreme Court of Korea held on March, 2012 that a periodical bonus paid in every three months should be included in a regular rate under certain requirments. The case law brings very hot discussions to the Korean industrial society. So an author suggests some ideas for a legislative reform with respect to a current regular rate system in this article. First, where an employer does not pay additional compensation based on the regular rate against extended work, night work and holiday work, he owes penal responsibility under the Labor Standards Act. A definition of the regular rate is, nevertheless, stipulated not just in the Act, but only in its executive order. A periodicity and an uniformity are, futhermore, only stipulated as a definition of a regular late. Then I suggest that the definition of the regular rate should be stipulated not in the order, but in the Act. And the Act or its executive order must positively provides kinds of bonus, benefit and the other to be included in the regular rate. Simultaneously, of course, the Act or its executive order also excludes another kinds of bonus etc. from the regular rate. Second, it is possible for an employer to grant a replacement holiday in stead of paying an additional compensation by an agreement between an employer and an union qualified or a representative of employees. In this case, however, some limitations on the agreement should be introduced, and at least some part of compensations must be secured for an employee concerned to curtail working hours. Third, where a scope of a regular rate is extended by an amendment of the Act, a rate of an additional compensation that is now 50% of the regular rate may need to be adjusted to the 50% and less.
한국비교노동법학회 [The Korea Society of Comparative Labor Law]
설립연도
1997
분야
사회과학>법학
소개
본 학회는 1997. 4. 1 창립되어 노동법 분야를 주로 연구하는 단체이다. 본 단체는 국내법, 외국의 노동법 노사관계등의 인접학문분야, 국제노동법 등을 연구함으로써 현재 국내적으로 연구가 미진한 분야의 하나인 노동법 분야의 이론적 발전과 재정립. 진보적 이론 창안과 법해석을 통한 사회적 공헌을 그 목적으로 하고 있다.
학회 회의의 자격은 교수, 박사학위 소지자의 자격을 갖춘자를 정회원, 기타의 자를 준회원 또는 특별회원으로 한다. 본학회는 1998년 이후 '노동법 논총'이라는 학술지를 발간하고, 매년 봄(5월)과 가을(9월) 정기학회를 2회이상 개최한다. 학회의 회원은 전국적으로 교수, 공공단체, 연구기관, 공인노무사 및 변호사 등의 전문가로 구성되어 있다.