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[sincerely]

I was offered a position with a school and the contract is missing some key parts and there is some general confusion which they have been working on to fix. This part however, I just cant figure out what they are asking and they cant seem to re-word it to make sense....

(E) The school can request the instructor to participate in the trainings on teaching student or any school events and the instructor should join them. For 6 holiday work in the contract term, the school can request holiday working without any payment in case of one week notice and the school should pay for overtime working without one week notice and in case the instructor work for over 6 holidays in the contract term.

Has anyone seen this before? To me it sounds like as long as I get a week notice I will work for free whenever they would like...

[Swampfox10mm]

Good gawd, don't sign that!

They're saying that 1 week before holidays (I'm guessing this means national holidays, or your vacation), they can tell you to work and they don't have to pay you for it.

The "trainings on teaching student" are probably what are called MT's, and involve traveling somewhere for a weekend and sleeping-over between climbing a mountain with a bunch of drunk coworkers. I avoid such things like the plague.

This school obviously has experience with previous foreigners who refused to attend MT's like that, and raised a stink about being told to work during holidays or vacation. I can tell you right now, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this is a hell school, and one you should never, never, never work for.

Pass. Run far, far away!

[some waygug-in]

Whatever it means, it ain't good.

I wouldn't touch that with a 40ft apostille.

[Swampfox10mm]

Let me repeat myself here.

Even if this school decides to remove such things from the contract, you still should not work there. The fact that they even put them in tells me what kind of place they are.