• 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 at least 60 days of paid leave for before giving birth. (Article 74 of Labor Standard Act)
• According to Article 19 of the Equal Employment Opportunity and Work-Family Ballance Assistance Act, a woman worker who is pregnant or raising children 8 years or younger (2nd grade or less at elementary school) is guaranteed to have up to a year of childcare leave; if parents (mother and father) use their own childcare leaves respectively, the total period of the leave can be extended to 1 year and 6 months at most.
• It is prohibited to have night shift or holiday work if a woman worker is pregnant or no longer than a year after childbirth.