[Table 3] Coverage of social insurances and working conditions, by employment status
(as of March 2009, %)
Health
Insurance
Employme
nt
Insurance
Retirement
pay
Bonus
Overtime
pay
Paid leave
66.6
57.9
62.2
57.8
43.1
54.1
48.3
48.1
Regular
98.1
98.7
82.2
99.3
97.4
75.0
90.1
68.3
61.2
Non-regular
34.7
37.5
35.7
28.4
21.7
14.1
21.3
30.2
36.1
Casual
Long-term
casual
Temporary
33.8
36.5
34.8
27.2
20.6
13.2
20.3
29.7
35.5
20.2
21.4
20.9
12.4
8.6
3.4
6.8
18.2
17.6
51.8
56.5
53.2
47.0
36.5
26.4
38.2
45.1
59.3
Part-time
6.7
6.9
7.3
4.2
3.9
2.4
2.8
18.6
20.2
On-call
0.4
0.5
3.0
0.1
0.3
1.3
0.0
1.0
3.8
Special
6.7
7.6
7.8
4.2
3.5
1.5
3.1
46.7
36.7
Dispatched
Subcontracte
d
Domestic
72.5
75.0
74.1
71.8
52.4
43.8
59.8
57.8
74.1
60.2
79.5
68.6
69.5
39.9
27.9
42.7
38.6
77.3
5.3
6.4
4.4
5.3
4.8
1.6
3.8
2.4
6.3
Written
contract of
employme
nt
5-day
workweek
National
Pension
64.9
Wage worker
Source: Statistics Korea, Supplement to the Economically Active Population Survey; Yu-Son Kim, The Scale
and Status of Non-regular Work in 2009
[Table 4] Actions on maturity of the employment contract (June-July 2009)
Classification1)
Workers with a
matured contract
Converted to regular
work2)
Termination of the
contract3)
Others4)
Jul-09
19,760
-100
7,276
-36.8
7,320
-37
5,164
-26.1
Jun-09
53,500
-100
20,735
-38.8
16,331
-30.5
16,434
-30.7
Source: A Survey by Ministry of Labor (July-Aug of 2009)
1)
2)
3)
4)
Those classed for 'June 2009' refers to the workers with a service period of 2 years or longer and
whose contract expired in June 2009; and those classed for 'July 2009' refers to the workers with a
service period of 2 years or longer starting after the Act took effect and whose contract expired in
July 2009.
Includes both i) the persons who signed an indefinite-term contract with better conditions and
more opportunities of job promotion and ii) the persons who signed an indefinite-term contract
with no improvement in treatment.
Means the termination of the fixed-term contract.
Includes the cases when ‘another fixed-term contract was made’, ‘the fixed-term job was retained
irrespective of the law provisions’ and ‘no specific measure was taken’. Under the Act in force, the
workers in these cases shall be all treated as becoming a regular worker.
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