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[bnrockin]

So I recently finished a contract with a university. My contract says verbatim regarding return airfare: "Employer will pay for a return ticket to the destination of the employees choice for the same or less than the original plane ticket's value."

Now before I finished my contract with my old employer, I received a job from a new employer effective three days after the completion of my contract. When I asked for a return plane ticket, my employer said "Oh we don't have to pay for it because you have a new visa." There is no clause in my contract even similar to that.

Now I really am planning on going home but my employer has refused to pay for it because I transferred my visa to a new employer. It still has not been 1 full month since my last day of work with my previous employer.

Is there anything I can do about it?

[Gaegeum2003]

Yes, go to the labour board.

[Troglodyte]

Agreed. If it's in your contract, and you are in fact leaving the country, then they need to give you a ticket out of here. If the contract doesn't state otherwise, then it makes no different whether you're returning afterwards or not.

[alwaysbeclosing100]

at least post the university name.............

[sallymonster]

I'm having the same problem. My school informed me today that they will not pay for a plane ticket home if I'm staying in Korea and switching jobs. I want to visit the US for about 2 weeks between contracts. My current school said that they'll pay for a plane ticket if I either renew with them or go back to the US permanently. One of my co-teachers knows I'm looking for work in Korea because I'm using him as a reference, so I can't lie.

I'm on the GEPIK contract, which is vague about this issue. Am I entitled to my plane ticket home, even though I'm only going to be in the US for a couple of weeks before starting a new job in Korea? (For the record, I only want a flight to the US from my current school, not the flight back to Korea).

[todes_8ngel]

I'm also with Gepik and in my contract it states that I don't get airfare money if I transfer visa. I only get it if I leave Korea for good or renew with the school.

[jacksthirty]

You should still get the ticket back home if you aren't staying with your current school. I guess you are extending your visa and getting a letter of release? Is your new school willing to pay for your flight back to Korea?

[sallymonster]