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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| The Sultan of Seoul wrote: |
Aw, come on guys...
Changing diapers and now logging... |
Damn! You beat me to it. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Reggie wrote: |
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I assume he meant he was going home to work on said logging business, maybe I'm wrong though. |
You're right.
If I return in late September, is it too late to pursue the apartment deposit or will it be too late to go to the labor board? |
Nope. Not too late.
You should send an email and a registered demand letter for all unpaid amounts, along with your banking info so they can transfer the funds to you, to your old bosses and the Wonderland HQ office. Keep copies of everything for the labor office.
They might surprise you and actually pay what they owe. If not, you can show these documents to the Labor office as it helps document what your bosses owe and their refusal to pay.
You can contact the labor office by phone as well and file a complaint on line. Although you want to be sure they know you are out of the country and when you'll be available for any hearings that you need to attend.
Then you'll be all ready to follow up or continue the process when you get back. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| ontheway wrote: |
| Reggie wrote: |
| northway wrote: |
I assume he meant he was going home to work on said logging business, maybe I'm wrong though. |
You're right.
If I return in late September, is it too late to pursue the apartment deposit or will it be too late to go to the labor board? |
Nope. Not too late.
You should send an email and a registered demand letter for all unpaid amounts, along with your banking info so they can transfer the funds to you, to your old bosses and the Wonderland HQ office. Keep copies of everything for the labor office.
They might surprise you and actually pay what they owe. If not, you can show these documents to the Labor office as it helps document what your bosses owe and their refusal to pay.
You can contact the labor office by phone as well and file a complaint on line. Although you want to be sure they know you are out of the country and when you'll be available for any hearings that you need to attend.
Then you'll be all ready to follow up or continue the process when you get back. |
If they simply paid him without a heated argument, then "surprised" would be an understatement.
But still, follow this advice because it will help you later when you get back and go to the labor board. |
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SeoulGerman
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
Location: Yeoksam-dong
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Almost ashamed to say but Wonderland was my first Korean gig.
To be honest I'm pretty laid back and didn't care too much about being on camera, it was the other shit that bothered me more: being paid late, all the "events", all the new & wonderful ideas that were the greatest thing ever (for about 5 minutes anyway).
My hagwon got took over by a Kyopo couple (who thought they knew it all and were bringing their North American swagger, they'd never lived in Korea, to rural Chungcheongbuk-do) and as the only Brit (that was a big enough crime in itself) I was pretty soon on the receiving end of some harsh criticism, etc.
Even that didn't bother me, after all, thanks to their wonderful management skills I went from having 6 classes a day to only having 2 as students quit in droves!
I even had some comedy moments along the way such as the time I was on the bus coming back from Seoul on a night out and suddenly I get a call asking me why I wasn't at class, the said couple were not impressed as I reassured them I had not been informed of the class and wasn't even in the city. Or the time I went back home to watch a footy match and they asked me to buy them a wedgewood dinner set as a token of appreciation for employing me.
Anyway needless to say, the inevitable moment came in the 9th month, they mustn't have been able to wait any longer: though not we're going to fire you mind but we don't have to pay your severance because my contract was with the former owner and he didn't mention it to them.
Despite the constant criticism, they said if I agreed to stay a 2nd year (yeah right!) then they'd pay me a year and a half severance. Stupidly the half-wits had done this on payday (I received my plane ticket before I started and I'd already used the return part). I informed them that seeing as my contract was with my former employer (who had done a runner himself) the I wouldn't work another day until I received half my severance now and a letter assuring me of the remainder (knowing I didn't really have a leg to stand on but knowing I already had a job lined up anyway).
Anyway never did go back to work there, started working at the new place a couple of weeks later after my new place "persuaded" them to give me a letter of release. |
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