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Grendal · Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 9:53 am Post subject:

update.

ICEAT is having a general staff meeting after the non-negotiable contracts were refused its complementary signatures by teachers here. Does this mean that the recruiting manager in charge of adjusting salaries is going to have to give in and offer raises? Pleasing the CEO with savings on contracts is the suspicion here. But at the cost of having a revolt and possibly loosing her own job? No teachers returning means the end of ICEAT here at KSU. This is their one and only major university contract.

Grendal

EnglishDoYouSpeakIt · Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 151 Location: Saudi Arabia

I think these companies can readily handle a mass exodus. They are always bringing in new teachers to replace lost ones. They can easily find replacements. We are hammers. Once we break there is a hardware store close by, fully stocked.

fledex · Joined: 05 Jun 2011 Posts: 342

Gerund · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 80 Location: Amerika

There's something really suspicious about EdEx. Out of the blue, I received a request for my resume, passport and degrees "before we can begin the assessment process".

I had no memory of applying to Education Experts Company, but I assumed from the line "before we can begin the assessment process" that I must have and that it was therefore a job I would be interested in.

I sent the requested documents, and only one day later I was offered a job and sent a contract to sign and return. An instantaneous job offer is always suspicious, and even stranger is that on my resume it is quite clear that I am already working in KSA. How could I possibly sign a new contract while under contract to another company? Surely EdEx knows that it would be impossible even if I wanted their low-paying position, which I don't.

Middle East Beast · Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree

Does the contract have the same insane stipulations?

--the first party reserves the right to make "appropriate deductions" if you resign or are terminated

--30 days of vacation at the end of the contract

--30 contact hours

--during the probation period they can terminate without notice and without compensation

--during the probation period if you're terminated or resign you will be charged any fines or levies imposed by the relative authorities.

In all my years in KSA I have never seen such provisions in a contract there...and the other Saudi contract I was offered was worse.

MEB Cool

EYEBALL · Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 34

EdEx has no intention of honoring the end of contract bonus if you are not on an iqama. By law, it only applies if you have an iqama--so they plan to cheat everyone who is working on the 90 visa out of it. They are also experiencing trouble getting the visas extended to August. If you are EdEx and on the 90 day visa, you may be leaving much earlier than they led you to believe!

Gerund · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 80 Location: Amerika

Grendal · Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 10:02 pm Post subject:

Business visas are getting harder to renew. A 90 day business visit visa is now being renewed for one week only then a final exit is required. No more perpetual renewal. Gone are the days of shady business by dodgy outfits.

Grendal

fledex · Joined: 05 Jun 2011 Posts: 342

Don't count on it Grendal. Edex will be bringing 'em in on visit visas. How else can they get the numbers they need during September? If the teachers need legitimate qualifications, and have to pass criminal background and medical checks, it would severely limit the number of replacement hammers they can buy. Maybe they'll just get them in for 90 days and then replace them.

Grendal · Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 10:33 am Post subject:

Mysterious · Joined: 24 Sep 2011 Posts: 170

Grendal, are you guys happy with the ICEAT contracts now?

Hubby is happy with his. It's definitely what he deserves. And he spoke to many other men and they all seem to have got pay rises, so I'm assuming possibly everyone has got a pay rise? Everyone that he's spoken to so far are content with what they've got.

About time they sorted it out properly!

ANd I hear some ICEAT staff were sacked.. but now there are rumours to try and keep them in?

And that EdEx will be sacking some staff, too. Apparently it's all come from the university itself, and not ICEAT or EDEX.. so hopefully this will put an end to the taxi driver type teachers? 'cause they're sacking people based on lack of qualifications, too.

fledex · Joined: 05 Jun 2011 Posts: 342

Grendal · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:01 pm Post subject:

fledex · Joined: 05 Jun 2011 Posts: 342

Going where the excitement is Grendal? The media is starting to call Istanbul the "summer of our discontent." For me, Qassim was the winter of discontent.

Grendal · Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:49 pm Post subject:

Istanbul! Such a stereotypical assumption of a place where travelers go when they visit Turkey. No I will be going to central Anatolia. Most likely Ankara. If not there is Eskisehir and Izmir too.

Istanbul is too over rated and expensive. Lots of scammers and thieves there too. You might get out with just a loss of $1000 US if you go drinking in some shady areas of Taksim. I was escourted to an ATM by two bouncers to pay for a bar tab that looked like I had bought the whole bars' contents. They seemed to have settled for my daily withdrawal limit and kicked me out as soon as the ATM coughed up the money. I was inebriated but not that much that I bought the whole bar. They contested that I was buying drinks for the Russian dancers that had swarmed my table.

Don't go drinking alone in Istanbul. You will get robbed if you're lucky and worse if you're not.

Grendal