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[thekingofcheap]

Position: English Teacher
This employment agreement is made between the following parties as listed and supersedes any previous
agreement made between the parties.


l. Term of Contract:
This contract will be valid for a period of months beginning 201 and ending 201

II. Description of services provided by the Employee to the Employer:

l. The Employee will be responsible for conducting professional, well-planned English language classes as specified.

2. The Employee will dress and conduct himself/herself` in an appropriately profes�ional

3. He/She will be required to go through an orientation and training program. The Employee is also required to attend
intermittent training sessions throughout the term of his/her contract should the Academic Office deem it necessary to
improve the Employee�s professional abilities, as well as any official meetings called by the Academic Office. The
Employee will not be paid during the training. Attendance at retreats and camps are optional.

4. The Employee will work for SDA Language School only. Any other employment, ineluding any type of private tutoring,

is contrary to Korean Law and will be considered a breach of contract, and the Employee will be terminated.

5. The Employee will be required to conduct student perfomance assessments.

6. The Employee will be subject to an educational background check for the purpose of verifying background infomation

that the Employee has provided. The Employee will sign an authorization form to this regard.

7. The Employee will be required to cooperate with the program and any policy changes.

8. The Employee will choose two timeslots out ofthe A-B-C day (i.e. A/B or A/Ci) in accordance to the local institute�s
schedule. Once chosen, the Employee will be expected to be available to teach at any hour within the chosen timeslots as
long as it does not surpass the daily quota hours/day.

9. The Employee is expected to devote no less than 2.5 hours a day at the Institute for lesson planning with co-teachers,

student evaluations, grading, reporting, and consultation with parents.

10. lfthe Employee is more than l0 minutes late for his/her scheduled classes without prior noti�cation, an hour ofpay may

be deducted.

ll. The Employer reserves the right to assign the Employee lo any of its domestic institutes based on the needs deemed

necessary by the Employer.

12. The Employee is expected to be available to teach both adult and junior classes.

lll. Payment for services rendered by the Employee:

l. The Employee is required to honor the Employer�s request to teach up to 6 hours/day up to 30 hours a week, Monday
through Friday. The teaching hours will be paid monthly at a guaranteed rate of 2,100,000 won per month. In the case,
the Employee�s local school is unable to provide enough classes to fulfill their contracted number of hours, the Employee
is required to fulfill the number of hours through one on one English classes over the phone as well as through video
conferences.

2. The Employee is strictly required to work 40 days in two months with an exception of occasional but mandatory extra

meetings or workshops.

3. The Employee will be eligible for a raise up to a 100,000 won based on evaluation performance upon the time of contract

renewal.

4. The Employer may ask the Employee to work overtime (the Employee has an option to refuse and will not be forced). If

the Employee chooses to do overtime, the Employer will pay for the overtime at the rate of 20,000 won an hour.

5. Severance pay will be paid upon the full completion of the 1 year contract period and full discharge of duties as per the

Employment Agreement.

6. The monthly stipend is based on the monthly teaching session and payment will be on the 25lh ofthe month. Korean
income tax, management expense for housing, medical insurance, pension will be deducted from the monthly stipend.

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IV. Description of services provided by Employer to Employee:

1. The Employer will reimburse a half amount ofthe round�trip ticket to Seoul after 30 days upon arrival to Korea and the

remaining amount upon completion of a 12-month contract. The Employee must leave within a month of the last day of
Iclass in order to use their free departure ticket provided by the Employer.

2. Employees who are already in residence in Korea at the time of hiring need to travel to an outside country for the express
purpose of obtaining a work visa. Employees will be provided with a round-trip ticket to a city designated by the
Employer for just such a purpose, as well as housing accommodations. lf the Employee is residing in South Korea at the
time of his/her first contact with SDALS, the Employer will give $700 at the end of a one-year contract towards airfare.

3. The Employee will be provided with a furnished apartment that may either be a private single person accommodation or
a shared apartment with a private room designated by the Employer free-of-charge. The Employer will provide certain
furniture items for the Employee�s apartment, which will include but not necessarily be limited to: a bed, mattress, fridge,
gas stove, washer and wardrobe.

4. The Employer will take 200,000won from the Employee�s first salary for the Housing Management deposit which will
also cover the utilities� bill for the last month of the Employee�s stay. ln the case that the utilities� bill will only be
available after the EmpIoyee�s departure, the deposit will be used to cover all remaining costs before having the
remainder of the deposit returned to the Employee after the Employee returns to his/her home country.

5. lf housing is unavailable or the Employee would prefer to choose his/her own housing, the Employee is responsible for

his/her own housing in which case an additional 300,000 won a month will be paid.

6. Teach in a classroom where CCTV is installed and activated.

V. Empl0yee�s termination of contract:

l. lf, for any reason, the Employee chooses to tenninate the contract before the full completion of the contract period,

he/she must give the Employer a minimum of 45 days notice. The Employee also must work until the end of the 2-
month�term and cannot quit in the middle ofthe term for any reason other than a personal medical emergency.

2. If, for any reason, the Employee chooses to terminate the contract before the completion of the contravct period, his/her

severance pay will be forfeited.

3. If, for any reason, the Employee chooses to terminate his/her contract within the 6 months of the contract period, the
Employer will withhold from the last month�s pay an amount equivalent to airfare previously provided for the Employee.
lf, for any reason, the Employee chooses to terminate during the contract period, after the first 6 months, but before 12
months of contract period, the Employer will withhold from the last month�s pay half the amount of airfare previously
provide for the Employee.

4. For a dismissal or voluntary resignation within 12 months of this contract period, the amount of recruiting fee will be

deducted from the Employee�s last monthly salary.

VI. Employer�s renewal of contract:

The Employer will give the Employee a 45-day notice before renewal or non-renewal of the Employee�s current contract.

VII. Employer�s termination of the Employee:

1. The Employer retains the right to tenninate the contract immediately if:

ai The Employee is unable to discharge the responsibilities or meet the conditions such as being late for class on a
continuous basis; continuous failure to keep regularly scheduled class hours and repeated absences from classes
without a valid reason.
b. The Employee receives written warnings from the Employer on 3 occasions.
c. The Employee tells others about his/ her own employment contract details.
2. The Employer retains the right to dismiss the Employee if the Academic Dean deems the quality of his/her work

unsatisfactory at any time during the period ofthe contract.

3. The Employer will give the Employee at least a 7-day notice before the termination of the Employee�s current contract.

4. Use of drugs, alcohol intoxication during work hours, consumption of alcohol in the presence of students, criminal
activity or cormption of public morals will result in immediate termination of the contract. No notice period will be given.

Vlll. Vacation
The Employee has the right to a minimum of l0 days of paid vacation days per year, which takes place during the pre-determined
term breaks. Term breaks start at the end of a term�s last class and lasts until the beginning of the next term�s first class.

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IX. Sick leave
The Employee is entitled to 2 days of paid sick leaves injury or illness prevents him/her from performing the responsibilities
stated herein provided that he/she obtains the Employer�s prior consent. ln the case of a sick leave taken for more than two (2)
days, the Employee shall submit a practicing d0ctor�s medical report to the Employer.

1. In the case the Employee leaves work early, daily cash compensation is calculated for the actual hours worked; for
example, if the Employee�s daily rate is 66,667 won (i.e. base salary divided by 30), this amount is divided by 8 (i.e.
regular daily work hours) and then multiplied by the actual hours worked on that day.
2. For the workdays missed as sick leave, the Empl0yee�s monthly salary shall be deducted accordingly: monthly salary

divided by the number of days in the month and then multiplied by actual days worked.

3. Special leave in the event of family illness or death will be granted on an individual basis for up to 5 working days.

Leave taken shall be considered as unpaid vacation time.

X. Procedure for disputes:
When disputes arise within a local institute, issues must first be brought to the institute coordinator, the director and finally the
Academic Office.

XI. Good faith:

The Employer and the Employee will act in good faith toward each other. The Employer will not dismiss the Employee without
what he/she reasonably considers good cause and the Employee will do his/her utmost to satisfactorily ful�ll all the
responsibilities and meet all the conditions as described in the above agreement.

XII. Full knowledge:
I hereby accept all terms and conditions of this Employment Agreement.

[YTMND]

Hey there pilgrim!!

Post in the contract thread, yo wee yo!!!!

[CentralCali]

Your post is in the wrong forum. I reported it for you and asked the mods/admins to move it to the contract one.

[thekingofcheap]

Sorry for posting in the wrong place. I thought I replied to that contract review thread but must have hit "new post" instead of "reply"

Thanks for the detailed analysis of the contract. Should I just turn down their job offer then, or re-write the contract and see what they're willing to change?

BTW, this is for a chain of Seventh Day Adventist hagwons, known as SDA. I can't find much about them

[CentralCali]

Personally, I'd work for someone else. My decision is not based on my like or dislike of the religion; it's based on that thoroughly awful contract. But to each their own. If you expect them to change that contract, which obviously had a lot of input from non-teacher folks (that's a euphemism for lawyers, friend) who expect the foreign teacher to not know better, then working for them or not very well may be a moot issue.

[thekingofcheap]

I only asked because of the way you worded some of your comments.

Anyway, I already told the recruiter that I wouldn't accept an offer with such an unfair and vague contract.

Is there something going on over there lately? I have two years experience in Korea and everyone wants to pay me 2.1. The recruiters I've worked with suck because they have no incentive to stick up for my interests

[YTMND]

Why is this thread not locked yet but http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=224091 is? Selective locking? Might as well comment then.