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| What benefits would you like in addition to money? |
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6% |
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34% |
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| More flexible holidays |
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20% |
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| More flexible visas |
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13% |
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6% |
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| Less paperwork |
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0% |
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| Honourable employer (tax, pensions, on time payment, etc.) |
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| Fair contracts |
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3% |
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big_fella1
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: Non-cash benefits |
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Obviously us evil waegooks all want more money! Given the sad situation where national holidays occur on weekends for the next few years, more leave would be good!
Last edited by big_fella1 on Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:20 am; edited 1 time in total |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:18 am Post subject: |
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LOL...  all of the above.
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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| More holidays, then my job would be near perfect. |
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nomad-ish
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: On the bottom of the food chain
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: |
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more holidays too.
it's dumb that some of us should sit in an empty school for most of the summer & winter vacations doing nothing. yes, i know it's the contract, but principals and VPs that enforce it should realize that many westerners operate on the "give a little, get a little" idea |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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I would add one item...
More control over the curriculum/textbooks and or more control in the classroom.
... I guess that's two... 
I mean seriously, these textbooks are fine for Korean teachers, but if they want us to be more effective as teachers, they really have to start allowing us to choose our own materials and use them as we see fit.
(I'm talking about elementary textbooks) |
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toong tao daeng
Joined: 18 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Less paperwork. |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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People complain about holidays. Back home you'd get a tenth these holidays. In Canada there is only one holiday per year, and it's Remembrance Day (not Christmas).
I think more universiality in the contracts, curriculums and standards would be good in the hagwon world. They have to start taking power over such things away from the hagwons and put that power in an outside body. Give hagwons and inch and they'll take a mile, which has been proven time and time again. |
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| more parties with the bosses and trips to the room salon on the company/school tab |
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big_fella1
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| genezorm wrote: |
| more parties with the bosses and trips to the room salon on the company/school tab |
I find 5 nights a week of that enough  |
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sadsac
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Gwangwang
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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For me, more holidays. Two breaks of two weeks would be so much nicer, or a month between contracts, paid of course.  |
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bourquetheman
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="IncognitoHFX"]People complain about holidays. Back home you'd get a tenth these holidays. In Canada there is only one holiday per year, and it's Remembrance Day (not Christmas).
Uh you're wrong about the number of holidays. Canada Day is a holiday, Victoria Day, Canadian Thanksgiving. I'm not sure whether you're implying just Canada holidays or not. Christmas is a holiday in Canada and Boxing Day, along with Good Friday and Easter Monday. Anyway....... |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: |
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[quote="bourquetheman"]
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People complain about holidays. Back home you'd get a tenth these holidays. In Canada there is only one holiday per year, and it's Remembrance Day (not Christmas).
Uh you're wrong about the number of holidays. Canada Day is a holiday, Victoria Day, Canadian Thanksgiving. I'm not sure whether you're implying just Canada holidays or not. Christmas is a holiday in Canada and Boxing Day, along with Good Friday and Easter Monday. Anyway....... |
Maybe it varies from province to province. The only statutory holiday is Remembrance Day where I hail from, it's the only day that employers must give you off or pay massive OT. |
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Nexus11
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: |
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[quote="IncognitoHFX"]
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
People complain about holidays. Back home you'd get a tenth these holidays. In Canada there is only one holiday per year, and it's Remembrance Day (not Christmas).
Uh you're wrong about the number of holidays. Canada Day is a holiday, Victoria Day, Canadian Thanksgiving. I'm not sure whether you're implying just Canada holidays or not. Christmas is a holiday in Canada and Boxing Day, along with Good Friday and Easter Monday. Anyway....... |
Maybe it varies from province to province. The only statutory holiday is Remembrance Day where I hail from, it's the only day that employers must give you off or pay massive OT. |
I don't know where you were employed, but you were getting ripped off big time.
Most holidays are set at the national level in Canada. All national holidays require the employer to pay employees 1.5 times their regular salary if they work on the holiday. This does not vary from province to province.
The following ten days are statutory public holidays in Canada set by the federal government:
New Year's Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Victoria Day
Canada Day
Labour Day
Thanksgiving Day
Remembrance Day
Christmas
Boxing Day
On top of that, provinces have their own additional holidays. They range anywhere from one to six additional days, depending on the province.
If you dispute this fact, go check out http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca |
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gajackson1
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Casa Chil, Sungai Besar, Sultanate of Brunei
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hmmm - sort of the reverse of the 'twist a wish' thread here.
If you had a fair contract, then you would expect it to be honored. But that comes down to the 'honorable boss' part, doesn't it?
Holidays? If most people got what is *supposed* to be granted under the MoL's provisions, esp. after the 1st year, that would be nice.
Housing is a huge deal for many - your 'home' here is your oasis, fortress, sanctuary - much like Charlton Heston's in The Omega Man.
A flexi-visa could make a much, much bigger difference in your money intake than most 'good' raises would.
What about smaller classes? More autonomy? Qualified/competent co-workers (foreign & Korean)?
Hmmm - out of all of those, an honorable/dependable (in the good sense) boss/owner combo would be top of my list. With that, all the rest seems pretty possible.
My first job, I really got lucky with my manager/owner. But my jobs after that, everything was an upgrade - I worked my butt off, and proved I deserved what I asked for/expected. All the time, I hear about people NOT getting what they were promised/what they have earned/ what they are legally entitled to. But it can go the other way also - you can wind up getting a lot of bonuses/benefits that are not in your paper contract, as well.
It is possible to create win-win situations for yourself.
Regards,
G. |
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