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Mankind
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Changing precedent against the teacher heavy handedly is not the way to ask for good work. Simple.
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The problem with this arguement is that Korean law is not based on precedent. Although I think Gord is a little too pro-owner, he is right. The owner has the right to make classes 60 minutes if you have a 120 hour contract. It's not a very smart thing for the boss to do, but it is their right. Ask for it not to change plead your case, but do as you're told in the end.
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While it may be cited as a classroom break, it's up to the school owner to decide if that is really a teachers' break.
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Actually its not. Korean law states that their must be certain legal break times while working (can't remember them off hand). Most teachers wouldn't want them though as they lead you to be at work about 40-50 longer a day. Its something like one 30 minute break for every 4 hours worked. Those little 10 minute breaks that are great for teachers don't actually satisfy the legal requirements. You should just get 1 or 2 long ones.
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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| What I was told by the education office a few years back (they visited the school I was at to check up on whatever..) what I was told and what they told the school owner wasthat hokwon classes must be the same time lengths as public schools; elementary school the classes are 40 minutes long...hokwon must be the same. middle school is 45/hokwon the same and high school is 50...hokwon is suppose the same. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: hour change |
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| according to Korean labour laws it is illegal for any hogwan to change the schedule of any teacher without their explicit agreement. Therefore they cant change the schedule unless you let them. |
Yeah that doesn't make any sense. Schedules change all the time, albeit not always in weird highly retrograde ways. I can't see a labor law being so strict that it straight jackets a company's ability to shift employees around within the bounds of an agreed upon contract. That would imply a hagwon needs to get an employee's permission for schedule changes at least every semester. And if the employee refuses?
Knowing Koreans, if they tried to make such a change to Korean labor law, some Korean would surely have tried to drive his burning KIA through the doors of the national assembly in protest. |
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