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[Zackback]

calendar's idiotic respnse would be:

well at least you know you did the right thing as a teacher....don't let the door hit your %#*# on the way out!

[shifter2009]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Skill]

[koreatimes]

TheUrbanMyth,

There is no need replying to me with existing options and trying to explain to me rules I already know.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Skill]

Citizen of the world. I would like one of those. Where do I sign up?

(I am sure everyone here knows what he meant.)

[Redcap]

Gorf :

You said that your contract made no mention of shared accommodation. But did the contract specify single accommodation ? If not, then your employer is well within his/her legal rights to assign you a roomie.

If however, your contract specifically states that single, non-shared housing is to be provided, then you are certainly entitled to it.

Assuming your job was lined up by a recruiting agency, this may be one of those rare occasions where the recruiter may be motivated to get off their ass and get involved. Generally, if a teacher does not last 3 months at a placement, the recruiter may not be paid a commission. If its in the interests of your recruiting agency that you remain at your school, then they may actually be willing to discuss the issue with the school and attain a resolution ( and secure their commission).

If your employer has indeed breached your contract, the Labor Standards Act provides you with the legal entitlement to terminate your contract immediately. In such instances, you are not legally bound to give your employer 30 days notice. Whether you do so or not, is up to you to decide.

[koreatimes]

[Gorf]

Hypothetical:

I started this job on Aug. 1st. My contract says I need to give "two months notice". If I get them to give me the pension money and tough it out utility 6 months (thereby making it so I don't have any obligation at all to pay airfare), would this schedule be right?

Aug 1 - Aug 31 (1 full month)
Sep 1 - Sep 30 (2 full months)
Oct 1 - Oct 31 (3 full months)
Nov 1 - Nov 30 (4 full months, give 2 months notice on last day in the month)
Dec 1 - Dec 31 (5 full months)
Jan 1 - Jan 31 (6 full months, Jan 31 my last day)

Or would they say "Aug 1 - Feb 1 is 6 months". I will ask them eventually, but I just wanna be hypothetical for the purposes of making sure if I quit on Jan 31 that they wouldn't still try and get airfare money from me. For what it's worth, my contract is from Aug 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012.

[ontheway]

Gorf, you have not answered the question about housing in your contract. Two people have now asked.

Did your contract state that you would have single housing?


Since you have ducked this question, we will have to assume NO it did not and you have no complaint and no reason to quit or run.


Now you claim that you started work on August 1. That means that when you started your thread you had worked less than 2 months, and not 2.5 months as originally claimed.

This is important because it means that most likely no payments were due from your boss to the national Pension and national Health insurance at the time you said you called them. So, while your boss may indeed steal from you in the future, at the present time

you cannot claim that he has not paid since no payments were due yet.


So. As of now you have no complaint. People here have been to quick to jump on your bandwagon with no facts.

You never answered this question either:

Did you get your ARC (Alien Registration Card) yet? When did you get it?

You see, your boss cannot sign you up for health insurance or pension until after you get your ARC. Then, after you are signed up, they will begin to send bills to your boss to pay. After the first bill comes, which takes some time after signing up, after you get your ARC, the payment due date comes some weeks later.

In short, it is probable that no payments were due at the time you called.


So, you have no complaint. No cause to run. No cause to quit. Not based on the facts you have given us.

[the_curious]

[PatrickGHBusan]

[Gorf]

Sorry, I didn't mean to glaze over any questions. Yes my contract says single housing. I got my ARC card my first week here. I haven't had time to call the pension office (sick and can't frigging talk! What's the deal with how persistent colds are here??) but other teachers haven't been getting theirs for the past few months so I can only assume I haven't either. Yeah it's an assumption, but I can't imagine that after two paydays it wouldn't have been kicked into yet, and I am missing nearly the same amount of money that the pension and medical should be for both of my first two checks.

That, and as I pointed out in my earlier thread about this place (it should be a few pages back) the working conditions really, really suck and I simply won't accept being put into shared housing and lied to, which constantly happens at this school. The place is a chaotic disaster and the school is slowly going out of business, as the owners have less ESL experience than I do, which is not to say that they can't run their school the way they want, but I won't have anything to do with it.

[ptaza]

For future reference, does this mean there are no potential snags with immigration in your new town looking you up and seeing that you just dipped out on an E2 that hasn't even been cold for 2 days?

Do they not keep records or never have or they just don't care anymore?