①In cases where an employer fails to pay all or part of the wages (excluding retirement allowance hereinafter the same applies in this Article) of a worker by the worker's date of separation from employment (for wages whose payment date comes after the date of separation from employment, such payment date; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), the employer must pay the worker interest on the delayed payment at the rate specified by Cabinet Order up to an annual rate of 14.6 percent of the amount of the unpaid wages due after the date of separation from employment for the number of days from the day following the relevant worker's date of separation from employment until the actual payment date.

②In cases where payment of wages is delayed by any of the unavoidable circumstances specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, such as natural disasters, the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to the period during which such circumstances exist.