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Mike410
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Location: Canada
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 Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:53 pm Post subject: Airfare question |
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If you get roundtrip airfare paid for by your employer, and you want to stay on in Korea or go to Japan etc. (not return home), how does that work?
Do you not get the return airfare? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: Airfare question |
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| Mike410 wrote: |
If you get roundtrip airfare paid for by your employer, and you want to stay on in Korea or go to Japan etc. (not return home), how does that work?
Do you not get the return airfare? |
It depends on your contract.
Some allow you to change the destination and they will pay up to the same as a ticket home.
Some don't allow changes. Go home or forfeit the ticket/funds.
Some just give an exit allowance equal to airfare and let you do what you want.
Get it in writing in the contract or pay the consequences later. It is not a labor law issue and they won't help you with it if it is not in your contract or if what you want to do is different than your contract.
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Mike410
Joined: 23 Sep 2011
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you request that you would like the return airfare paid in cash - before signing the contract? |
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YTMND
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Location: You're the man now dog!!
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| Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Mike410 wrote: |
| Can you request that you would like the return airfare paid in cash - before signing the contract? |
I would ask about it as an "option" but not a request. This depends on how much you want the job. If they will not accept your desired option, will you take the job anyway?
You really can answer this yourself, if you will then there is no need to ask now. If you won't take the job, then ask and be ready for another school.
I haven't asked schools myself for airfare until one school wanted to cut the contract period short and not have to pay me for the last month. So, I told them I should still get airfare then. It was unexpected, but they paid 85% of it knowing I was just transferring to another school in the same country and not flying anywhere.
You could tell them the airfare back back home and then compare it with a flight to Japan. I am sure the Japan trip will be less and just tell them they could pay for that one instead. Do this a few months before the end of the contract period.
It's not something I would bring up before a contract period. There is something about going to a school but not wanting to stay in the country that just comes off as if you aren't serious. |
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Mike410
Joined: 23 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| That's a fair point. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| Mike410 wrote: |
| Can you request that you would like the return airfare paid in cash - before signing the contract? |
If there's anything you really want in your contract, you should ask before you sign. If you wait, you've only yourself to blame when they refuse later. It is reasonable with no extra cost for a school to pay cash in lieu of airfare at the end of a contract, so if they refuse this polite request and you lose the job you're probably better off. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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^^ agreed.
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Mike410
Joined: 23 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Good points. Thanks for the advice. |
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beentheredonethat777
Joined: 27 Jul 2013
Location: AsiaHaven
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| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Mike410 wrote: |
| Good points. Thanks for the advice. |
@Mike410 : Did you make it to Korea yet? How'd the flight thing go for you? |
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