A survey found that the lower the level of job security and wages, the less able to use legally guaranteed paid vacations due to the company's concern.



According to the results of a survey of 1,000 office workers by the civic group Workplace Gapjil 119, 47.3% of non-regular workers answered that they could not freely use paid annual leave.



49.4% of workers at workplaces with less than 5 employees and 55.6% of workers earning less than 1.5 million won per month answered this.



On the other hand, 81.3% of regular workers said they were 'free to use'.



Workers at workplaces with 300 or more employees (84.0%) and workers with wages of 5 million won or more per month (90.2%), etc. The larger the company and the higher the wages, the less restrictions on taking vacations.



Non-regular workers find it difficult to properly use summer vacation, paid sick leave, and maternity leave as well as public holidays, including holidays.



The percentage of respondents who said they are free to use paid vacation days on public holidays is regular workers (84%), workers at workplaces with 300 or more employees (77.0%), workers earning 5 million won or more per month (87.4%), and non-regular workers (46%). It significantly exceeded workplaces with less than 5 employees (51.9%) and wage workers earning less than 1.5 million won per month (35.5%).



The number of regular workers (55.0%) who said they were free to spend summer vacations was higher than that of non-regular workers (35.8%).



The same was true for maternity and parental leave.



44.7% of female office workers, 54.3% of non-regular workers, and 65.3% of workers earning less than 1.5 million won per month said they could not freely use maternity leave.



50.2% of women, 56% of non-regular workers, 66.7% of workplaces with less than 5 employees, and 62.9% of workers earning less than 1.5 million won per month said that they could not use parental leave freely.



Article 60 of the Labor Standards Act stipulates that 15 days of paid leave should be given to workers who show up at least 80% of the time for a year, and they should be allowed to use the leave freely if there is no 'significant hindrance to business operations'.