• At the worksite hiring five or more full-time workers, the employer should guarantee a day of menstrual leave per month to all women workers upon such worker’s request regardless of their type of employment, absence status, type of occupation, or age. (If otherwise stipulated in the employment contract under collective bargaining, the menstrual leave is not paid.)
• If a pregnant woman worker gives birth, the worker is guaranteed to have a total 90 days of maternity leave including the first 60 days of paid leave for before and after giving birth. (Article 47 of Labor Standards Act)
• Article 19 of the Gender Equality Employment Act guarantees parental leave for up to one year raising a child under the age of eight (children under the second grade of elementary school).
• It is prohibited to have night shift or holiday work if a woman worker is pregnant or no longer than a year after childbirth.