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[hanams]

I just received an email from my recruiter (after signing and receiving contracts a month ago) that all teachers starting work in 2011 need to sign the new GEPIK contracts.

Has anyone else received the new contract? There are a few new changes...

Is it worth it to post up the new contract on the contract sticky?

[jrwhite82]

I'd love to take a look. Please post.

[sallymonster]

I haven't heard about this, but now I'm worried. Please post!

[hanams]

I posted it up!

Anyone else receive the new contract??

I can't be the only one......

[Vagabundo]

[Vagabundo]

[jrwhite82]

Yeah I didn't go clause for clause, but the most important things were all the same. Maybe they changed the dates?

[hanams]

Well I'm glad if the changes are so little...I hadn't heard about any new changes to the GEPIK contract and after already signing and receiving the old contract and preparing to leave, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't signing on to something random last minute...

Obviously this is my first time and I just want things to go over smoothly...

[Vagabundo]

[jrwhite82]

I know...I feel like I wasted 10 minutes of my life rereading the same contract. Thanks for nothing OP!!!

[lifeinkorea]

[SCAshley]

I signed my contract in Dec. so it was the 2010 contract. Since I didn't actually arrive in Korea until Jan 4th my recruiter said I would need to sign the new 2011 contract, but my co-teacher hasn't gotten it together to have me sign the new one. The main differences that stuck out to me were: you have to pay back the 300,000W settlement fee if you leave at ANY time during the contract (previously it was after 6 months you didn't have to pay back, same as the airfare. The airfare clause is the same, just the settlement allowance clause changed). Second, the new contract actually says that if the school is on break and there aren't any winter camps, the teachers are not required by GEPIK to stay at school. At the principals discretion, they don't have to come into work. Wouldn't make a difference in my case, since I think my boss would make me come in anyway...and I might leave after 6 months, so I like the 1st contract better.

[Vagabundo]

good catch.. They eliminated the clause about how you're supposed to make yourself available to the local POE during vacation time if you don't have camps at your school, etc to do. That never applied to me, so I missed it.

ditto re giving back the settlement allowance.

[nathanrutledge]

And that new clause will last for all of five minutes.

That's how it used to be until people who had it good couldn't keep their mouths shut, and then those that had it bad had to go and complain, ruining it for the rest of us.