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Kaspar Hauser
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 Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:16 am Post subject: Pay your own airfare to KSA to work at PMU? |
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| I've been offered a contract to work at PMU by Al-Falak. Upon reading the contract, I see that you have to pay for your own airfare to and from KSA. This is the first time I've ever seen this. Could this be why they're having such a hard time hiring staff? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: |
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I thinjk it is a legal requirement under the Labour Code that employers pay your ticket at beginning and end of contract. One of the Barrack Room Lawyers here is sure to know.
Of course if you come on one of these dodgy deals where you get a visitor's/business visa................................ you get what you deserve.
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trapezius
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: Land of Culture of Death & Destruction
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:52 am Post subject: |
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What you said Kaspar is right.
It is an all-inclusive contract, with a fixed all-inclusive salary of 12,000 or whatever. That includes basic pay, tickets, visa fees, health insurance. Accomodation is provided.
^ Yes, it IS a legal requirement, but he is coming in through a contracting company on a business visa, not an iqama (work visa/residence permit).
At the end of the year, if the uni wants to keep him, they will hire him on the uni's visa, and then the pay monthly pay will be greatly reduced, and tickets (once/year) and health insurance will be paid for by the uni.
Example of a particular (a friend) case I know of at another uni:
On Al Falak: SR. 12,000/month for 10 months = 120,000.
Take away 1,400 for health insurance, and say 3,600 for ticket. Gives you 115,000/yr, or about 9,500/month.
He finished one year on that contract, and is now being offered the following by the uni:
Salary: SR. 7,000/month for 12 months.
Health insurance and one ticket per year are paid for.
So that's 7,000/month.
Obviously, the Al Falak contract is better, however, I must add here that if Kaspar decides to stay next year, the university will offer him a lot more than 7,000. Probably about 9,000 - 10,000. So, in the end, for him, it is the same.
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redgoo
Joined: 22 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:11 am Post subject: Re: Pay your own airfare to KSA to work at PMU? |
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| Kaspar Hauser wrote: |
| I've been offered a contract to work at PMU by Al-Falak. Upon reading the contract, I see that you have to pay for your own airfare to and from KSA. This is the first time I've ever seen this. Could this be why they're having such a hard time hiring staff? |
This is but one of many, many reasons why they are having, and will continue to have problems hiring and retaining staff in the future. The school is sinking abysmally which explains the exodus of the well qualified teachers from the school. The only faculty who are remaining are the desperate teachers who are unqualified, can't teach elsewhere or who sit on the "outer fringes" of mental psychosis.
The unwillingness to want to pay airfare is just one step the administration is implementing to cut any and all benefits that they can from the teaching faculty. Case in point � after the midterm the administration decided that they did not want to pay teachers for the few paltry hours of classroom overtime that they had so they just arbitrarily combined classes and reassigned teachers to new classrooms. This angered both the students and the teachers. It once again created chaos and havoc with scheduling, textbooks, and teachers teaching unfamiliar levels. But this is commonplace at PMU.
I have in the past tried to offset the negative statements with positive statements about the place in order to show a fair picture of the situation that exists. But sadly I am fresh out of accolades for this school. The faculty has just been told that the school will withhold half their vacation pay until they return back to Saudia to finish out their contracts. This is just another example of the attitude of suspicion and contempt that the PMU administration has for the faculty. |
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Da Great Brain
Joined: 22 May 2007
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Location: Saudi Arabia
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: Holding 1/2 vacation pay - not |
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| The teachers I know all received their vacation pay in full, in advance, on time. PMU has been prompt and fair as far as salaries and benefits according to everyone I have spoken to. |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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| First post and it is a testimonial for Al Falak ! Hmmmmm |
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brasscat
Joined: 22 Jan 2007
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Location: Farpoint Mindstation
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject: PMU & The Contract |
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At this time(18 July) most of the recruiting for PMU is coming from the recruiting company: Premier Recruiting. E- mail: [email protected]
Yes, PMU does pay the airfare. Al-Falak lost is recruiting contract with both PMU and UOH.
PMU: 12 month paid & 2 year contract.
Al-Falak: 10 month paid & 1 year contract.
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