Last Change:
06/30/2025
Employment Insurance Act
Original names of the law: 고용보험법
Year: 1995
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Social protection, Work & Workplace rights, Documentation
Description
The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the employment insurance system operates effectively to prevent unemployment, to promote employment, to develop and improve the vocational skills of employees, etc. to enhance the State's vocational guidance and job placement services, to promote the livelihood security of employees, etc. and job seeking by providing unemployment benefits if employees, etc. become unemployed, thereby contributing to sustained economic and social development.
Selected provisions
(1) This Act shall apply to foreign workers to whom the Act on the Employment of Foreign Workers applies: Provided, That Chapters IV and V shall apply only where a request is made as prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Employment and Labor.
(2) All or part of this Act shall apply to foreign workers with exception to those falling under paragraph (1), as prescribed by Presidential Decree.
[This Article Added on Jan. 15, 2019]