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stillafool · Joined: 18 Apr 2014 Posts: 23 Location: South Korea

thanks. yes, she's british.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Check with your employer and see if they are interested in getting two teachers. Not a great place to work, but with two salaries, you should be able to save enough to make some of the conditions more acceptable.

VS

MuscatGary · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:11 am Post subject:

omanoman · Joined: 11 Jun 2014 Posts: 140

well, that's her choice then isn't it? Take a job with a separate sponsor and the benefits that are offered OR remain on the husband's family visa, work illegally, although without much if any real risk, and keep the family visa benefits. The husband doesn't lose anything, but the wife would, ie the flight from the husbands sponsor. That is my point and I'm not misleading or being a snarky curmudgeon about it.

I'm happy to encourage people in that situation because, as your acquaintance's wife knows, she can happily work for a salary but no sponsored benefits and nearly double the family income. This is common as is the potential for teachers to find other work outside of their day jobs, for 10 - 20 hours a week. Yes, it is illegal but then why can it continue without interference or risk for the last 20 years ? Some people feel that any such risk is too much, many many others carry on earning extra money for years.

David S · Joined: 21 Apr 2016 Posts: 25 Location: Edinburgh

balqis · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 373

Hawthorn paid 1000 to M.A. holders plus housing or 200 OR added to ur salary, and up to 50 OR cost of utilities. So 1200 plus ur bills were covered by them.
For B.A. holders ir was some 900 or so, maybe 930, the rest was the same, i.e. housing and bills.
Flats they offered were furnished and AC-ed. If you took the allowance instead, there was no special furniture allowance.
After one year, if you were renewed, there was a renewal bonus, some 25 OR or so, I do not remember exactly, but quite immaterial.

To those lecturers who were suddenly not renewed and denied a NOC I would strongly suggest the following: try to involve your HoD and the college HR Director or even your college Dean to stand by you and speak out on your behalf to your agents in order to exert a pressure necessary for your agents to issue your NOC. It is by their recommendation anyway that the NOC is or is not issued.
If your conduct was up to the mark, how can you be denied the NOC??

balqis

David S · Joined: 21 Apr 2016 Posts: 25 Location: Edinburgh

In their more recent adverts, as opposed to previous practice, Hawthorn were advertising 975 for MA candidates and 900 for BA.

It's alarming (not for MA-less people like me) that Al Nawa offers a base of 865 seemingly regardless.

I understand from a private message that NOC letters have now been given (whether to everyone or not, I don't know).