TL;DR
1. Cafe employee worked 12 hours a day, 4โ6 days a week, for 6 years at minimum wage, with no official break time.
2. When the employee quit, the boss calculated severance pay based on 10 hours instead of 12. The reason? They claimed the employee rested an average of 2 hours a day during slow times when there were no customers.
3. Lawsuit result... The court sided with the employee, ruling that break time must be clearly stipulated in the labor contract as time for *complete* rest, and simply chilling when customers don't show up is not acceptable. The boss was ordered to pay 50 million KRW (2 hours of wages + severance pay combined).
"The court's decision was a slam dunkโeveryone agrees the boss is a trashbag who deserved to get hammered for trying to nickel-and-dime the employee on break time."
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