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[basilbrush]

Hi

GEOS's 5 day working week is 29.5 hours, but they say their shifts are from 11-8, 12-9 or 1-10- this is 9 hours per day.

Are they split shifts or is a third of the working day taken up by breaks?

Thanks

[ripslyme]

Welcome to eikaiwa. Your working hours, to the minute, are strictly defined as ONLY those spent in a classroom teaching students.

[basilbrush]

They said "in school time" is 29.5 hours, teaching time average of 20-25, was just wondering where the other 3 hours of the day went?

[ripslyme]

I don't know exactly how long GEOS' classes are, but for example:

1 class is 50 minutes with a 10 minute break between classes.
In one shift, you could possibly teach 8 classes.
Your lunch break is one hour (one class period + break).

So for a 9 hour (540 minute) shift it breaks down as follows:
6 2/3 hours (400 minutes) of class time
1 1/3 hours (80 minutes) of breaks
1 hour (60 minutes) for lunch

You figure some days you won't teach 8 classes a day and... Ta-Da! a 29.5 hour work week - even though your shifts (9 hours x 5 days) total 45 hours a week.

[Glenski]

Whatever they are using to calculate your 29.5 hours as "in school time", they have a reason.

They can claim you as a part-time worker to the government that way, and avoid making copayments into health insurance and pension plans. Legal but coy. The unions are working to break that up.

You will still have to take health insurance, but you are not obligated to get a pension plan. If GEOS doesn't make copayments, guess who pays for it all?

[basilbrush]

Thanks for the replies.
Can anybody working for GEOS now give me a run-down of a typical day?
Cheers

[elkarlo]

[kahilm]

[basilbrush]

Great, should be starting work there anyday now