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Can You Have 11 Month Contracts?

 
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grandpa



Joined: 19 Oct 2009

PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:39 pm    Post subject: Can You Have 11 Month Contracts? Reply with quote

If you start at a new school ~one month after the semester starts (late September), then can you ask for an 11 month contract when you renew the following year, so that when you leave the school after the renewal you can join another school before the semester starts?

If it is possible, then do you lose out on the "perks" (i.e. severance, airfare . . .)?
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northway



Joined: 05 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you're re-signing with the same school you can sign for whatever length of time you and your boss agree on.
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jonpurdy



Joined: 08 Jan 2009
Location: Ulsan

PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But, if it's less than a full year you lose out on severance.
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OculisOrbis



Joined: 17 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you re-sign for 11 months after your initial 12 months, you lose out on severance for those 11 months if you take the severance payment for the first year when you re-sign.

If you dont take the severance payment for your first year when you re-sign, you are entitled to severance for the ENTIRE period you worked - 23 months.

Severance is calculated by finding your average daily wage for the last 3 months of employment (including overtime) and multiplying it by the total number of days you were employed.
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thegadfly



Joined: 01 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you missed a step in there, Occulus -- average daily wage in the last 3 months times the number of days I have been employed? That would be total wages earned in all the days employed -- you must mean that amount times some pro-rated percentage or fraction.

How about 1 and eleven-twelfths months wages, based on the average of the last three months...no less confusing, but possibly closer to accurate....
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OculisOrbis



Joined: 17 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, that was terrible math on my part. Here's the offical calculation method with an example:

Carla wrote:
This was posted on the Ministry of Labor website on JUNE 4, 2009, so it is the most up to date thing I could find.

1. Pursuant to the Employee Retirement Benefit Security Act, an employer shall pay workers
who retire 30 days or more of average wages for each year of their consecutive service as
retirement pay within 14 days from the date on which there occurs a cause for the payment.

○ Calculation of retirement pay
- Statutory retirement pay = daily average wage � 30 (days) �
(total days of service/ 365)

So, for 2mil won, average daily wage is ...66,667.

So, let's say you worked 18 months. That's... 548 days.
(rounding out to whole numbers)

(66,667) x 30 x (548/365)
(66,667) x 30 x (1.5)
====== w 3,000,015
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