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[Mysteriousdeltarays]

6.1 If Party B has been recruited to teach at a Party A’s BPO school， Party B's direct and indirect aspects of
probation Remuneration Package (the same as below) for the first month is RMB14,000yuan and
RMB16,000yuan for each month afterwards for the rest of the period of service.
乙方在甲方BPO 学校教学，第一个月试用期薪酬待遇（薪酬待遇同以下）为人民币14000 元，之后每
月薪酬待遇人民币16000 元。其薪酬待遇包含直接支付（现金部分）的工资及间接支付（非现金部分）
福利。
The remuneration package has the following components as follow:
薪酬待遇如下：
a) The probation salary for the first month is RMB8800yuan, including basic salary RMB7200yuan, travel
allowance RMB100yuan, food allowance RMB600yuan, communication allowance RMB100yuan per month,
and international airfare allowance of RMB800yuan per month which will be reimbursed on completion of
the contract.
乙方第一个月试用期工资为人民币8800 元，包括每月的基本薪资7200 元，工作餐费600 元，工作交
通费100 元，通讯费100 元，机票津贴每月800 元（合同完成一次性发放）。
b) The salary for the following months until the completion of the contract is RMB10800 yuan, including basic
salary RMB9200yuan, travel allowance RMB100yuan, food allowance RMB600yuan, the communication
allowance RMB100yuan per month, and international airfare allowance of RMB800yuan per month which
will be reimbursed on completion of the contract.
乙方自第二个月开始月工资调整为人民币10800 元，包括每月的基本薪资9200 元，工作餐费600 元，
工作交通费100 元，通讯费100 元, 机票津贴每月800 元（合同完成一次性发放）。
Party B will receive a total of RMB9,600yuan as international airfare allowance (as stated in 6.1 a) and b)) on
completion of one-year contract. This will be paid in the following manner: RMB9,600yuan to be paid within
2-5 working days based on the certification of work completed issued by Party A’s BPO school as well as
Party B’s Boarding Pass and Itinerary (required by the relative policy from the tax bureau) upon the
successful completion of the Contract. This will be adjusted accordingly based on the days Party B has
actually worked.
完成一年合同，乙方将收到人民币9600 元的国际机票津贴(即上述条款中所述的每月800 元机票津
贴)。此津贴将以以下形式支付：合同完成后2-5 工作日内凭甲方BPO 学校合同完成证明以及乙方提
供的登机牌及行程单支付人民币9600 元,按照乙方实际工作月份进行调整发放。
c) The overtime payment rate for the entire contract period is RMB150yuan per hour for non teaching activities
and RMB200yuan per hour for teaching hour.
非授课任务按照150 元/小时标准支付加班工资，授课任务按照200 元/小时支付加班工资。
d) Remuneration Package provided by Party A includes Social Insurance rate of RMB1500yuan per month for
Individual, which is an indirect payment and will be withheld to local government directly by Party A for
Party B according to the local government policy.

[johntpartee]

Buncha double talk. Not a standard SAFEA contract. Pass.

[Mysteriousdeltarays]

Double talk it is! Can anybody unravel it?

[Sarcastro]

Looks like you need to figure out if you are working for a BPO school. It looks like a boilerplate contract it gives to all its teachers. It looks like it spells out separate compensation for the BPO and other teachers.

[roadwalker]

On the typical foreign teacher (SAFEA) contract the school pays a salary, a travel bonus of ~RMB 2200, an airfare bonus or reimbursement, and either provide living quarters or a housing stipend. Some also add a utilities bonus for water, electricity etc., and some add school meals or school meal credit. This contract adds all* of those up as total salary, which, given the above convention in SAFEA contracts, seems intentionally misleading. I used to work at an office in the US that was always trying to impress us with our "total compensation package" so that we wouldn't think we were underpaid.

*Except that they don't mention a housing stipend or provided accommodation. Is accommodation mentioned in another clause?

If indeed there is no accommodation provided (rent free) or a separate housing stipend, then it is a very crappy contract. As it is, I don't like the double talk as mentioned above, so I wouldn't trust this outfit.

The only positive is that teachers should be thinking entire package ("remuneration package") when comparing jobs, and not just salary. This contract, while apparently intentionally confusing, at least points to that.

On second look, there does indeed seem to be a clause or two that you didn't provide, to get the total package up to 14k -16k. I still have my reservations about this contract, but just be sure to measure it against other contracts and their bonuses, etc. And of course, measure it against what work and time commitments each job offer entails. Try to measure apples to apples.

[rogerwilco]

Hangzhou Helen !

BPO school means something like "best possible option".
The school that they choose for you, not the school that you choose.

So much negative info about this organization that operates under about a dozen different names.
You can do a search on this forum of "hangzhou and helen"

Here is another one of their ads using the term " BPO"
http://www.helengroup.com/hotjobs_con.asp?id=547&classid=25
"Monthly salary：based on degree and teaching experience ■RMB7,500～7,700～8,000～8,300 (covering basic salary RMB4,800～5,000～5,300～5,600, house rent allowance RMB2,000, residential allowance RMB500, insurance allowance and clinic allowance RMB200). During the months of July and August of 2012 there will be no salary given as there is no work at this time but free accommodation will be provided during these months by the BPO School."

[doogsville]

Upon examining the written submissions of the prospective employers, heretofore referred to as the BS party, and having taken note of the various clauses, sub clauses and super clauses, notwithstanding any and all information that has been incorrectly, with or without malice aforethought, poorly or deliberately and possibly unreasonably translated from the original Chinese into the subsequently incoherent and arguably actionable poor English, it is my considered and complementary honest and therefore conceivable opinion that the party of the third part, hereinafter referred to as 'you', should, as a matter of great importance, maintain an attitude of extreme, that is to say, without regard to any persons, real or fictional, deceased or currently non deceased, give this contract, after due consideration and subsequent idealogical filtering, as wide a berth as is is possible to give whilst still maintaining your current position within the gravitational field of the planet currently contained within the solar system of the sun, hereafter referred to as the star knows as Sol, known to its inhabitants as 'Earth' AKA The World. (This, and any subsequent text, printed only for the purpose of having something in parentheses, may not be reproduced in digital or analogue form without the express and written permission of the original author, foreverafter referred to as 'me.)

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[NoBillyNO]

Yeah .. tell Dave to install a like button

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[JoeKing]