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EmilyG27
Joined: 25 Jun 2009
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:47 am Post subject: Leaving Early - Breaking My Contract |
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Hello,
I have a question about leaving early and breaking my contract. I have notified my school that I am leaving early, and I am breaking my contract after working for 6 1/2 months. My school is being very nice about the whole situation, they just want me to find a native English speaker who is already in Korea (and who is looking for a job). This will be quite a task, and I want to leave in one month because of a personal situation. My work is fine with this, but they say I cannot leave until I find a replacement. I am looking high and low, and I will continue to search because they are a great hagwon, and they aren't giving me and troubles. They are also very professional, and I have not had any problems. I just need to leave the country because of other issues.
If I have given them warning (and my contract doesn't even say I need to give warning), do I have to stay if I have not found a replacement? Is there anything they can do because I am breaking my contract? Do I have to stay until I find a replacement for them? I just want to make sure they cannot do something legally to me if I leave Korea. I don't want to cause and commotion or troubles at work, and I don't really do well in these types of situations. I have dealt with Korean business before, but I have never had a teaching contract. I just don't want to get in trouble legally, and I don't want this to come back and bite me.
My contract also states that I only have to pay for my ticket to Korea if I leave before 6 months. I will be leaving after 6 months, but my work keeps saying that they want me to pay back my plane ticket. Do I have to? What should I do?
And if there is anyone who wants a wonderful hagwon job in Seoul, I have the perfect one for you! I'd love to find someone to take my place as soon as possible. Does anyone have any suggestions when finding someone to take your place?
Thank you for your help, and I look forward to getting useful information. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Leaving Early - Breaking My Contract |
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| EmilyG27 wrote: |
Hello,
I have a question about leaving early and breaking my contract. I have notified my school that I am leaving early, and I am breaking my contract after working for 6 1/2 months. My school is being very nice about the whole situation, they just want me to find a native English speaker who is already in Korea (and who is looking for a job). This will be quite a task, and I want to leave in one month because of a personal situation. My work is fine with this, but they say I cannot leave until I find a replacement. I am looking high and low, and I will continue to search because they are a great hagwon, and they aren't giving me and troubles. They are also very professional, and I have not had any problems. I just need to leave the country because of other issues.
If I have given them warning (and my contract doesn't even say I need to give warning), do I have to stay if I have not found a replacement? Is there anything they can do because I am breaking my contract? Do I have to stay until I find a replacement for them? I just want to make sure they cannot do something legally to me if I leave Korea. I don't want to cause and commotion or troubles at work, and I don't really do well in these types of situations. I have dealt with Korean business before, but I have never had a teaching contract. I just don't want to get in trouble legally, and I don't want this to come back and bite me.
My contract also states that I only have to pay for my ticket to Korea if I leave before 6 months. I will be leaving after 6 months, but my work keeps saying that they want me to pay back my plane ticket. Do I have to? What should I do?
And if there is anyone who wants a wonderful hagwon job in Seoul, I have the perfect one for you! I'd love to find someone to take my place as soon as possible. Does anyone have any suggestions when finding someone to take your place?
Thank you for your help, and I look forward to getting useful information. |
If there is really nothing in your contract about resigning, then giving a month's notice is reasonable. Your school cannot force you to stay beyond that and in fact they cannot force you to stay if you choose to leave tomorrow.
You should not have to pay back your airfare if you have been there 6 months, if that is in your contract as you have indicated. If they are demanding that you repay, it may be that your school isn't as great as you have indicated.
You should try to find them a teacher quickly, and there are more teachers than jobs right now, so this is possible. Perhaps your school should get a recruiter busy looking if they really need someone in four weeks as that's a very short amount of time. 60 to 90 days would be better.
If you don't find your school a teacher, then they will probably be upset if you leave them with no teacher. They will lose students and a lot of money. It could bankrupt the school. So if you like the school and the people there, you should make every effort to find a teacher and to stay a bit longer if that helps with continuity.
In the end, it's your school that's responsible, not you, so they should use a recruiter to replace you - of course that will cost them a little money, but they're saving on your severance, so it's a wash. Encourage them to do this as there is so little time. You will be leaving in about 30 days, and even if you can be a bit flexible, you must give them a final date so they will get serious. When you give them your "final date" be sure to hold back a few days so that you can later agree to extend and still leave by your real final date. |
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VFRinterceptor
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: |
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If you have already given your school 30 days notice, good, keep trying to help them out by finding a replacement, but if you can't, then you can't, and its ultimately up to them to find a replacement.
Secondly, your contract says you don't have to pay airfare back if you've been there for more than 6 months. Again, that's that, and it's obvious that you shouldn't have to pay. If they ask again, politely show notify them about the stipulation in your contract. |
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