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Moon Over Parma
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 Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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As for the foreign employee age limit, is an employee classified the same as an FT? |
That's the tricky thing. In another thread I've mentioned the human trafficking going on in Changchun with foreign teachers. A handful of people outside of universities and specific schools can hire foreigners in large numbers, and often broker their services out to people involved in prostitution (i. e. "modeling") and other nefarious activities. Companies like Tianshuo and Yijia specialize in this and have earned notorious reputations because of it. Yes, they do have FTs with FECs on their payroll. It makes them look good to prospective business partners, and when they parade paperwork to the authorities that are not in their pockets. How they get around the FEC matter for individuals that do not meet national regulations is to hire them as "employees," rather as teachers. The specifications on the actual visa in their passport are not for teaching but as an employee. As a result, anyone they hire that does not meet the provincial or national regulations is that those hires end up receiving the "employee" visa. No FEC. Just a legal right to be in China and a legal right to work, but technically not as a teacher.
Using that clusterf**k as an example, it is clearly possible to simply be an "employee," or, an employee that is a foreign teacher, complete with the FEC booklet. Like everything in China, how other provinces play this game can vary. |
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