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[depth]

Hi all,

If any of the board experts may be able to please answer...

i want my employer to provide PAID RETURN airfares (+2weeks unpaid holidays), so that i can return home and visit family before renewing for another 12 month contract.

is this often requested by other teachers and is it generally granted by employers? whats the best way to ask for paid airfares?

i would have already used up my 2 weeks of paid vacation during the year (plus national holidays), so happy to get 2 weeks unpaid holidays.


thankyou in advance for any responses

[Ya-ta Boy]

Are you saying you want a free flight to Korea when you come over the first time, a free flight home for a visit, another free flight back to work the second year...and presumably another free flight back home at the end of your contract?

[Otherside]

Ya-ta, you pretty much read that right. What is the problem with that? Contract 1 gives a free return flight, Contract 2 gives a free return flight.

I really don't see the problem - OP, you'd might want to get those 2 weeks as paid vac, something of a bonus for renewing or what have you.

OP, I'm not sure of the best way to go about this, but i'd just mention to the Boss you want to renew and tell him to pay for/buy you, a return ticket. I mean, he can always give buy your one-way ticket now...and then reimburse you for your returning 1 way ticket, at a much heavier cost

[Dome Vans]

Does it have anything in your contract about renewing?

EPIK contracts state that they'll pay for a return flight home for the last two weeks of your contract before you start back for the beginning of your new contract and it's paid.

Is this where you got the idea from?

It depends on your relationship with your Boss. Do you think you could ask this, which to many here would not seem to be unreasonable in the least. Otherside said it well. The actual monetary value of him doing this makes no different if you were to leave. He'd have to buy a ticket for a new teacher as well as pay for your ticket out. It's worth just asking, any reasonable person would say yes.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Often a major reason for the boss to re-sign you is so you keep teaching. Mommy isn't going to like that jisu isn't getting her English for 2 weeks.

[cruisemonkey]

This should be covered in your contract under a renewal clause.

[binjibadgy]

you should have something like this in your contract

[depth]

Ya-ta-Boy - yes thats right way of understanding the situation

Dome Vans - thanks for the EPIK info. no i did not get the idea from EPIK. really just thought i would like to visit home after 12months. and i was sure i wasn't the first person who thought of doing this, so wanted to see the forum's views on the subject.

yingwenlaoshi - yes, finding a fill in teacher is a reasonable concern for employer

cruisemonkey - thanks, great point

binjibadgy - thats very kind of you to post that info - thanks

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[sadsac]

Depth, explain to your boss the simple economics of keeping you on and providing what you are asking. It's better for them, than going to the trouble of hiring a new teacher. Consider his up front costs, airfare, recruiter and general disruption caused by staff turnover. My wife and I got the same thing in 2007 for staying with our current hagwon.