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[daisy]

This is probably an easy question for anyone in the know. I have a contract working for a mostly decent, though not completely honest hagwan, teaching adults. Twice a week I am sent to another school, not one of the franchise to teach children's classes. My questions are these:

Is this legal? No paperwork was filed at immigration when I got my visa etc.

Can I get into trouble with immigration for working in two places on the insistance of my boss? Can he get into trouble?

As my contract does not mention anything about other schools, but does clearly state that I must abide by all Korean laws, can I refuse to go to the other school on this basis? (assuming it is not legal to work at two different places)

My contract states a "maximum" of 120 hours per month, but without the additional school hours I am only doing about 100. From what I can understand, my school is being paid a lot of money to provide a "token native speaker" to this school.

From the tone of this post, it is easy to see that I do not want to do the work at the additional school. Can I refuse to go, stating the law as a reason?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am in a bit of a quandry as to what to do about this.

[jacktar]

I don't think it's legal actually. Your visa will state which hogwon you work for. However, it's pretty common. I don't do this any more but I used to. At one point I was working 8 hours a day but only 1 of those was in my actual hogwon.

[Son Deureo!]

No, it isn't legal. But if they fill out the right paperwork with Immigration they can make it legal. Without the proper paperwork you're facing possible deportation, and you and your boss are both facing the possibility of big fines.

If you're happy with working there on the whole (and it sounds like you are), I'd pressure them to make it legal. And don't take "Don't worry about it" for an answer. If you don't believe you can get in trouble for working illegally when your boss tells you to, just ask Derrek or Phoenix from this forum.

[crazylemongirl]

yeah I agree, better to be safe than sorry. The problem now is that your boss is supposed to notify immigration either before (or within 14 days) of you working at an additional location.

My boss had me farmed out to another school (she owned it) and when I bought it up that I needed the paperwork done as I had also moved house my address was the only thing that changed. I tried a couple of times to no avail. I remember seeing something about a fine if you reported a change of work location late. I'll try and dig up the info (it's somewhere on the immigration site).

I'm happy to be back at one school, I sleep a lot easier knowing that everything is legit.

CLG