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The Labor Standard Act enacted in 1953 still has rigid working hour system, which shows limitations in regulating diversified labor types in a highly industrialized society. Accordingly, there has bee...
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The Labor Standard Act enacted in 1953 still has rigid working hour system, which shows limitations in regulating diversified labor types in a highly industrialized society. Accordingly, there has been a practice where ''fixed wage is paid as demanded by company without setting basic wage or additional allowances for overtimeㆍnightㆍholiday work, or with additional allowances included in a set basic wage.''
The practice has developed into the inclusive wage system, and conceded by courts as preceding legal cases have built up complicated legal principles. Yet, the principles of preceding cases do not present exact and constant stance on concept, requirements, effects, and included wage items in the inclusive wage system, while making it difficult to control excessive use of inclusive wage contract and permanent adoption of extended work, and further undermining overall Labor Standard Act including regulations regarding working hours, breakㆍholiday, and vacation.
There have been discussions about nature of working hours, burden of proof on impossibility of working hour calculation, or improvement of legal principles by ensuring ''collective written agreement of employees'' or ‘explicit agreement of an individual worker.'' However, regardless of the discussions, problem solving by legal principles of preceding cases has certain limitations. Therefore, legislative improvement is required.
First of all, working hour regulation amended to include waiting time to working hours must be adopted in number of working hours, which is threshold of extended work, and overtime allowances as well as calculation of working hours. Second, inclusive wage contract must be specified in regulations about obligation of written statement of working conditions. Third, exceptional regulations in the Labor Standard Act need to be improved. In particular, even within the exceptional regulations, there must be a certain ceiling in extended work. Fourth, there must be legislation regarding the inclusive wage system itself. In inclusive wage contract, specific wage conditions must be stipulated along with effective conditions of the wage system, and positive and negative lists of allowances. In any case, fixed inclusive wage contract without setting basic wage must be clearly prohibited. Lastly, ensuring certain wage amount in the inclusive wage system must be discussed, considering it leads to general wage level in many cases.
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