Unpaid Wages Recovered: Full Favorable Ruling Establishing Joint Liability of Corporation and De Facto Representative
26-07-01 213
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1. Case Overview
Following their resignation, the client filed a civil lawsuit against their former employer (the defendant corporation) and the de facto representative who operated the company, seeking the payment of unpaid wages and delayed interest.
The core challenge was not only to accurately calculate the unpaid wages—the rightful compensation for labor—and definitively apply the statutory delayed interest rates (5% and 12% annually), but also to prove that the de facto individual representative, alongside the corporation, bore joint liability for the wage payment.
Law Firm Theo meticulously analyzed the client's employment records, contractual relationships, and details of the unpaid wages. Based on this evidence, we strongly argued to the court that a clear legal obligation existed for both the defendant corporation and the de facto representative to jointly pay the client's wages.
4. Result of Assistance
The court fully accepted Law Firm Theo's arguments, issuing a ruling that ordered the defendant corporation and the de facto representative to jointly pay the client 16,115,538 KRW in unpaid wages, along with compensation for delay. As a result, the client was able to fully recover their rightful claims for the entire amount of wages that had been unjustly withheld.
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