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[kosmo]

What exactly is an ARC?
Im about to sign a contract that reads:
"During this employment period, the school will provide the teacher with 12-20 hours of work per week before he obtains his ARC. After he has received his ARC, the school will provide him with a minimum average of 20 hours per week. The pay rate is NT$580 per hour."
Can anyone comment on this?
Thanks so much in advance for your help.

[clark.w.griswald]

The Alien Resident Certificate (ARC) is an identity card that all foreigners who live in Taiwan for extended periods of time must have. In the case of teaching, the ARC is based upon work, and as such it names the employer for which you are entitled to work.

'Getting an ARC' often refers to the process of becoming legal. There are three main steps to doing this - the work permit, resident visa, and ARC - but the term 'getting an ARC' if often used to encompass all of these.

Just one point on the legality of the position as it is being offered. Previously the government allowed teachers to begin working prior to receiving an ARC provided that proof could be shown that the ARC application process had commenced. The process of obtaining the ARC generally takes about a month, and the government previously offered a grace period for this.

Recently the government changed tack on this and have now made it illegal for a teacher to work prior to receiving their ARC card. Therefore there is a period of about a month that a teacher should not be working in a legal sense. Despite this it remains common practice for teachers to work while their ARC is being processed.

It is recommended that you exercise care if you decide to commence work prior to your ARC coming through, but then there is very little practical alternative. This is the sort of personal decision that you really need to make on your own.

[scb222]

most people dont have a choice but to work first but do they???? isnt this because you have to work at numerous schools in order to get a good salary???? dont most schools simply offer just a few hours???? or is this changing due to the clamping down on illegals??
thanks!

[Ki]

Make sure that the contract you are about to sign is with a school. Never sign a contract with a recruiter. It isn't really a good idea to sign a contract from overseas anyway.

[clark.w.griswald]

[Aristotle]

Be advised that an ARC does not mean you are legal.
Through the occupational government 's continuing implementation of racist and abusive polices, it is estimated that over 90% of all minority native English teachers on Taiwan are currently subject to arbitrary arrest and deportation by the occupational government on Taiwan.
The vast majority of ARC's issued on Taiwan by the occupational government are done through fraud, bribery or guanxi. ARC's obtained through fraudulent means with or without the knowledge of the teacher subjects that minority teacher to extra judicial deportation and the possible confiscation of any and all funds held in Taiwanese banks.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Please read this,
10 Steps to Success on Taiwan!
Good luck!
A.

[clark.w.griswald]

[SanChong]

He won't respond, as usual. He will continue to post these ridiculous posts that are so far from reality. I just hope that intelligent people know enough to ignore everything he says. I'm fairly sure they already do.

I just feel bad for people who have never been to Taiwan/Asia before.
They may not know enough to know that he is a crazed sociopath.

[Dr_Zoidberg]

Don't believe anything Aristotle says, he isn't even living in Taiwan. He's living in a world all of his own.