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[Soju808]

I was looking over my new contract and I saw that my local city hall edited the GEPIK contract on the overtime hours. My contract is offering me a pathetic 7,000 won an hour to teach overtime.

However, I did renew my contract with my school because I got a raise in pay, and I'm very comfortable where I live and I don't want to leave my students. But if my school wants me to work overtime, I'm gonna say no.

[asams]

that's ridiculous....

sorry, no help. i wouldn't do it, and neither should you. i guess they figure you'll never work overtime cause no one would be that stupid

[Milwaukiedave]

Owch, no.

[Rusty Shackleford]

That clause is in most PS contracts. It is for NON-teaching overtime and I have never once heard of it being used. You will get 20k minimum for extra classes over the 22 and outside of 8.30 till 4.30.

[ThingsComeAround]

Kinda makes you wonder why they put it in there to begin with...

[wylies99]

[Jammer113]

My contract has a clause, too, for non teaching overtime at 7000 per hour. However, the op said that his city changed his contract. Op, if your contract has the same mandatory overtime clause as everyone else's, you don't get to say no to overtime (up to 28 hours of teaching). Please post your exact clause, though, so we can see.

[Tobias]

[Rusty Shackleford]

[quote"wylies99"]

[maingman]

ThingsComeAround wrote :

Kinda makes you wonder why they put it in there to begin with...



not kind at all

[dean_burrito]

i once got the 7,000 won for going with teachers to drink 15,000 won cups of coffee at some ritzy place. this from a school who didn't have money to buy me any resource books for last semester.

[iiicalypso]

It is my understanding that the 7000 won rate is the same one given to the Korean teachers for their non-teaching activities. I work in a GEPIK high school, and the Korean teachers are responsible for babysitting ("supervising independent study) until 10 or 11 pm once every week or two. I asked my co-teacher how much he gets paid for that and he said 7000 won an hour.

My immediate reaction (after feeling pity for any so-called professional who will accept those terms) was that this is just a clause brought over from the terms of the Korean teachers arrangements. Since in two years I haven't been asked to do anything like this, I am going to let it slide. They don't trust me with a key to the copy room; I doubt they would trust me with a room full of sleeping students.

[antoniothegreat]

it is quite curious, as it is illegal for us to be in a classroom without a KT (obviously this happens anyways) so they would not need us to do any test overseeing, as a KT would have to be paid anyways.

Of course, any teaching we do would be paid more, so what in the world would they expect us to be doing?

class prep? I know most of the upper big whigs think the KTs do all the prep and we just stand on the side, so they wouldnt imagine us doing that.

[Pink Freud]

At many National universities the Korean and foreign faculty are paid W6,000 hour for teaching more than their base contracted hours. For a K prof, this would be 9-12 hours/week and almost never exceeded. For a foreign faculty member this is more likely 16 hours/week with forced overtime of up to 4 hours a week. the forced overtime is becoming less common though, I hear.

[wylies99]