Article 2 (Definitions)

The terms used in this Act shall be defined as follows. <Amended by Act No. 15464, Mar. 20, 2018; Act No. 16266, Jan. 15, 2019; Act No. 17265, May 26, 2020> 1. "Worker" means a person who provides labor to a business or workplace for the purpose of receiving wages, regardless of the type of occupation. 2. "Employer" means a business owner, a person in charge of business management, or any other person who acts on behalf of the employer regarding matters concerning workers. 3. "Labor" means mental and physical labor. 4. "Employment contract" means a contract concluded for the purpose of a worker providing labor to an employer and the employer paying wages in return. 5. "Wages" means all cash and in-kind payments that an employer pays to a worker as consideration for labor, under any name including wages, salary, etc. 6. "Average wage" means the amount obtained by dividing the total wages paid to a worker during the three months preceding the date on which the reason for calculating it arises by the total number of days in that period. This shall also apply to cases where a worker has been employed for less than three months. 7. "One week" means a period of seven days, including holidays. 8. "Prescribed working hours" means the working hours agreed upon between a worker and an employer within the scope of working hours as stipulated in Article 50, the main sentence of Article 69, or Article 139 (1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. 9. "Part-time worker" means a worker whose prescribed working hours per week are shorter than the prescribed working hours per week of a regular worker engaged in the same type of work at that workplace.