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[lpwright]

Any advise on the below contract is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

TEACHER OBLIGATIONS

A. Supervision

The teacher will work closely with academic supervisor and other colleagues in the planning, observation, and review of instruction.

As a member of the Institute, the teacher will contribute to the cumulative experience, wisdom, and resources of a team dedicated to developing, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive program for teaching English to Koreans.

B. Behavior

The teacher should respect the rules and standards of conduct of the Institute (written, verbal and tacit) and obey the laws, regulations, instructions, and ordinances of the national and local governments.

Any teaching or employment other than at the above address shall not be permitted, in accordance with Korean Law. Non-compliance may result in discipline including fines and deportation.

C. Workload

The Teacher will have at least 22.5 80-minute classes per teaching week. The Teacher is expected to devote no less than 2.5 hours a day at the Institute for lesson planning, student evaluations, teachers�� meeting, consultation with parents, and supervision of play. Upgrading one��s professional knowledge and skills is without additional pay. If the teacher has the classes less than 22.5 classes, the teacher is expected to teach staff members or teach students over the phone. The workweek will follow the yearly academic calendar issued by SLP, (Corp) Sogang Univ. The total teaching load including overtime will not exceed for any given week 25 80-min classes a week, unless both parties agree.

Staff meetings will be scheduled at the discretion of the Institute Director. Attendance is required. Staff meetings will allow time for discussion of topics of current concern within the program such as new policies, procedures, method of training, instruction, curriculum, and other matters as needed. Staffs are encouraged to help work out practical solutions to problems at these meetings.

The preparation and attendance for special events such as Field Day, Halloween Party, Speech contest, etc. demands the teacher to stay in school for one or two Saturdays in a year and the party itself lasts during the regular school hours.

D. Overtime

Over time teaching is paid beyond 22.5 80-min classes. Overtime will not be paid on holidays, sick days, or emergency leave days. The assignment of overtime above the regular 22.5 classes and less than 24 classes is at the sole discretion of the Institute. The over time rate is 30,000 won per one 80 min class.

E. Work Schedule

The workweek runs from Monday through Friday in monthly periods. The teacher��s schedule will be assigned by the Institute Director. . If the teachers have morning classes, they begin at 9:20 and finish at 6:50 p.m.. If not, they begin at 2:30 and finish at 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The teacher will be expected in the institute by 9:00 a.m. for the morning preschool teachers or 11:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, according to Section C.

F. Special Research Projects

Any part of the teacher workload converted to research and development work by the institute will be remunerated according to Section D.

G. Period of Contract

Although pay starts the day the Teacher starts Teacher Training Program, the effective date of this contract is the first teaching day not training in the Institute. The total period of this agreement is approximately one year, commencing from the first day of the session and finishing on the last teaching day of the teacher��s 12th teaching session. A delay in the Teacher��s arrival at the Institute, or in the opening of a new Institute may call for a re-negotiation of the contract period.

The Institute reserves the right to terminate this agreement for cause with written notification sixty days in advance, and for serious cause without notice. The teacher agrees to give written notification sixty days in advance of intention to terminate this agreement or of interest in renewing it.

The period of this contract shall be one (1) year

from: May 1st, 2006

to: April 30th, 2007


TEACHER BENEFITS

A. Monthly Salary

The Institute will pay the teacher a total monthly basic salary of each month. The monthly salary is based on a calendar month, not the monthly teaching session. Korean income tax, National Pension & Medical Insurance will be withheld from the monthly salary.

B. Housing

The Institute will provide each teacher a studio-typed apartment. The apartment will contain TV, refrigerator, washing machine, Air conditioner, wardrobes, telephone, gas range, beds & Korean style bedding, dining table & chairs, and some eating & cooking utensils. However, the teacher shall pay for the maintenance fee, usually 50,000 won per month and the utility fee (electricity, water, gas, phone bills, etc.).

C. Health Insurance

The teacher will be covered by Korean National Health Insurance. According to the government guideline for teachers, the monthly insurance charge will be shared by the Institute and the teacher at a rate of 3.6% of monthly salary. Coverage will be from the date of joining to Korean Medical Institute Union, commencing approximately 3 to 4 weeks after the teacher��s arrival of Korean due to requirements of the immigration and taxation department.

D. National Pension Plan

In accordance with Korean Law, all foreign workers employed by Korean businesses shall pay into the Korean National Pension Plan at a rate of 9% (or the ratio stipulated by the Korean National Pension Law) deducted against monthly earnings with the employer��s contribution of 4.5%.

Refund of the National Pension to a teacher who becomes a compulsorily insured employee, where the Pension Act of the teacher's home country provides the benefit corresponding to the lump-sum refund of the National Pension Plan, the lump-sum refund of this plan shall be paid to the foreigner according to Korean Law.

E. Paid Sick Leave and Emergency Leave

The teacher may use a five-day (maximum of 16 classes) paid sick day in a year. The teacher should provide the institute with as much advance notice as possible, at least one day ago. The teacher may take an emergency leave when his/her parent is seriously ill or passes away. The teacher should provide a document from a doctor after taking a leave. If it is found that the hours/days of absence reported as sick leave or emergency leave were not in fact for such purposes, 1.5 times the hourly wage will be deducted from the following month's pay for every subsequent class missed. Evidence of "Sick Leave" abuse will be considered "Cause for Termination" of the teacher's contract by the institute.

F. Airfare

The Institute shall pay round-trip airfare between the nearest International Airport to the Teacher��s place applied and Seoul, Korea. Round-trip airfare is provided. One-way airfare is provided at the beginning and end of contract. When the teacher needs to go to Japan for E-2 visa trip, the institute shall pay round-trip airfare.

In case the Teacher fails to complete the contract, the teacher shall pay back to the Institute the total amount of the air tickets, including the visa trip expenses.

G. Teacher Training Program (TTP)

The teacher shall have a training period before starting to teach in the Institute. The training period will not exceed four weeks. During the training period, the teacher will be in the Institute for classroom observation. The teacher will receive briefings from the Academic Supervisor, and the Institute Director, fill out the observation forms and will get acquainted with institute policies including Teacher��s guideline. During the TTP time, the teacher will receive half the rate of the regular pay.

H . Vacation

The vacation will be scheduled for one week in summer and one week in winter as per the yearly academic calendar which is decided by the SLP, (Corp) Sogang Univ.:. During the vacation the teacher will be paid the basic rate of payment but no overtime will be paid according to Article 47 and 48 of Korean Labor Standard Law.

I. Completion Bonus

On completion of one��s responsibilities of the full contact period, an additional month of regular salary per one year shall be paid as completion bonus. However, if the teacher fails to complete the full period of one year contract, none of the completion bonus shall be paid according to Korea Labor Standard Law. Completion bonus will be paid by bank transfer no later than one month after the teacher has left the institute. Korean tax will be withheld. Any outstanding debts incurred by the teacher will be subtracted from the completion bonus.

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

Monthly Salary W2,000,000
Severance Pay W2,000,000 a month Salary per year


*Your compensation will be paid in Korean Currency

[Corporal]

Just a few things really:

[celticjay]

Horrible contract!!!!!

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Grotto]

C. Workload

The Teacher will have at least 22.5 80-minute classes per teaching week.

That comes out to 30 hours a week of IN CLASS TIME! Add in breaks, and that ridiculous 2.5 hours a day prep, planning, evaluating, meeting and cosultation you are looking at a 50 hour workweek Right here is where you run away...thats RUN...not walk!

The Teacher is expected to devote no less than 2.5 hours a day at the Institute for lesson planning, student evaluations, teachers�� meeting, consultation with parents, and supervision of play. Upgrading one��s professional knowledge and skills is without additional pay. If the teacher has the classes less than 22.5 classes, the teacher is expected to teach staff members or teach students over the phone.

Phone teaching is pointless, useless demeaning work....no one should ever agree to this stupidity!

The workweek will follow the yearly academic calendar issued by SLP, (Corp) Sogang Univ. The total teaching load including overtime will not exceed for any given week 25 80-min classes a week, unless both parties agree.

Great an extra 2.5 classes of overtime...whoop de do.....slave wages, slave hours and slave pay...DO NOT SIGN THIS CONTRACT ITS CRAP!!!

Staff meetings will be scheduled at the discretion of the Institute Director.

Great mandatory UNPAID meetings at the discretion of the dictator tell these morons to go stuff themselves(explaining that 'stuff' actually means fxck)

Attendance is required. Staff meetings will allow time for discussion of topics of current concern within the program such as new policies, procedures, method of training, instruction, curriculum, and other matters as needed. Staffs are encouraged to help work out practical solutions to problems at these meetings.

Herr Dictator...the problems are: you make us work too much and pay us too little


The preparation and attendance for special events such as Field Day, Halloween Party, Speech contest, etc. demands the teacher to stay in school for one or two Saturdays in a year and the party itself lasts during the regular school hours.

So the prep for these parties is overtime? Oh wait a minute I dont care because I would never sign a contract where I work Saturdays even once! Crap contract...did I mention that before?

D. Overtime

Over time teaching is paid beyond 22.5 80-min classes. Overtime will not be paid on holidays, sick days, or emergency leave days. The assignment of overtime above the regular 22.5 classes and less than 24 classes is at the sole discretion of the Institute. The over time rate is 30,000 won per one 80 min class.

Considering that there are several months where there are holidays, that means that any 'overtime' will not be paid That they can make you teach 24 classes and NOT pay you overtime is bullcrap....tell these morons to take a flying leap! Whats their email address? I would love to forward my critique of this contract to these morons!!!

E. Work Schedule

The workweek runs from Monday through Friday in monthly periods. The teacher��s schedule will be assigned by the Institute Director. . If the teachers have morning classes, they begin at 9:20 and finish at 6:50 p.m.. If not, they begin at 2:30 and finish at 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The teacher will be expected in the institute by 9:00 a.m. for the morning preschool teachers or 11:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, according to Section C.

Dont forget you have to be in 2.5 hours for prep as well...soooooo that means you would have to start at 7:00 AM and finish by 7:00 PM or Noon and finish by 9:00PM or later...so 9-12 hour days stupid contract written by very stupid people!

F. Special Research Projects

Any part of the teacher workload converted to research and development work by the institute will be remunerated according to Section D.

But wait!!! You only get paid for in class time so research and development would fall under professional development and would therefore be unpaid stupid contract!

G. Period of Contract

Although pay starts the day the Teacher starts Teacher Training Program, the effective date of this contract is the first teaching day not training in the Institute. The total period of this agreement is approximately one year, commencing from the first day of the session and finishing on the last teaching day of the teacher��s 12th teaching session. A delay in the Teacher��s arrival at the Institute, or in the opening of a new Institute may call for a re-negotiation of the contract period.

No way Jose! The contract is for one year...period! That is in accordance to Korean labour laws.....the opening of a new institute has nothing to do with a re-negotiation of the contract period! Was this contract written by retards?(my apologies to any mentally retarded people reading this...I am sure you are capable of writing a much better contract than this!)

The Institute reserves the right to terminate this agreement for cause with written notification sixty days in advance, and for serious cause without notice. The teacher agrees to give written notification sixty days in advance of intention to terminate this agreement or of interest in renewing it.

Nah 30 days notice is plenty

The period of this contract shall be one (1) year

Then whats all that crap about re-negotiating, training sessions, teaching sessions etc? Morons!

from: May 1st, 2006

to: April 30th, 2007


TEACHER BENEFITS

A. Monthly Salary

The Institute will pay the teacher a total monthly basic salary of each month. The monthly salary is based on a calendar month, not the monthly teaching session. Korean income tax, National Pension & Medical Insurance will be withheld from the monthly salary.

Tax on 2 mil is 1.5%, pension is 4.5%, medical is 2.24% not that is matters only an idiot would work for these assholes!

B. Housing

The Institute will provide each teacher a studio-typed apartment. The apartment will contain TV, refrigerator, washing machine, Air conditioner, wardrobes, telephone, gas range, beds & Korean style bedding, dining table & chairs, and some eating & cooking utensils. However, the teacher shall pay for the maintenance fee, usually 50,000 won per month and the utility fee (electricity, water, gas, phone bills, etc.).

C. Health Insurance

The teacher will be covered by Korean National Health Insurance. According to the government guideline for teachers, the monthly insurance charge will be shared by the Institute and the teacher at a rate of 3.6% of monthly salary. Coverage will be from the date of joining to Korean Medical Institute Union, commencing approximately 3 to 4 weeks after the teacher��s arrival of Korean due to requirements of the immigration and taxation department.


D. National Pension Plan

In accordance with Korean Law, all foreign workers employed by Korean businesses shall pay into the Korean National Pension Plan at a rate of 9% (or the ratio stipulated by the Korean National Pension Law) deducted against monthly earnings with the employer��s contribution of 4.5%.

Refund of the National Pension to a teacher who becomes a compulsorily insured employee, where the Pension Act of the teacher's home country provides the benefit corresponding to the lump-sum refund of the National Pension Plan, the lump-sum refund of this plan shall be paid to the foreigner according to Korean Law.

E. Paid Sick Leave and Emergency Leave

The teacher may use a five-day (maximum of 16 classes) paid sick day in a year. The teacher should provide the institute with as much advance notice as possible, at least one day ago. The teacher may take an emergency leave when his/her parent is seriously ill or passes away. The teacher should provide a document from a doctor after taking a leave. If it is found that the hours/days of absence reported as sick leave or emergency leave were not in fact for such purposes, 1.5 times the hourly wage will be deducted from the following month's pay for every subsequent class missed.

Sorry dumbasses but penalty clauses like that are illegal....you cannot penalize someone for not having a doctors note! Stupid stupid stupid!

Evidence of "Sick Leave" abuse will be considered "Cause for Termination" of the teacher's contract by the institute.

Evidence of teacher abuse will be considered breach of contract and the institute will have to pay out the remaining time left on the contract as well as provide airfare to anywhere the teacher wishes to go before returning home....see I can put in crazy ass clauses too!

F. Airfare

The Institute shall pay round-trip airfare between the nearest International Airport to the Teacher��s place applied and Seoul, Korea. Round-trip airfare is provided. One-way airfare is provided at the beginning and end of contract. When the teacher needs to go to Japan for E-2 visa trip, the institute shall pay round-trip airfare.

Not that anyone should sign up with these punks but they should also cover all expenses for a visa run!(meals, hotel, train, taxi etc)

In case the Teacher fails to complete the contract, the teacher shall pay back to the Institute the total amount of the air tickets, including the visa trip expenses.

After 6 months the teacher should not be held responsable for the airfare.....and never for the visa trip expenses(because if you dumbasses had your crap together people would have their visas before they came to Korea!)

G. Teacher Training Program (TTP)

The teacher shall have a training period before starting to teach in the Institute. The training period will not exceed four weeks. During the training period, the teacher will be in the Institute for classroom observation. The teacher will receive briefings from the Academic Supervisor, and the Institute Director, fill out the observation forms and will get acquainted with institute policies including Teacher��s guideline. During the TTP time, the teacher will receive half the rate of the regular pay.

Then they should only work 1/2 days....the rest of the time they can spend looking for a decent job

H . Vacation

The vacation will be scheduled for one week in summer and one week in winter as per the yearly academic calendar which is decided by the SLP, (Corp) Sogang Univ.:. During the vacation the teacher will be paid the basic rate of payment but no overtime will be paid according to Article 47 and 48 of Korean Labor Standard Law.

? so they stack up your classes prior to your vacation? That way they dont have to pay you for them crap contract written by crap people!

I. Completion Bonus

On completion of one��s responsibilities of the full contact period, an additional month of regular salary per one year shall be paid as completion bonus. However, if the teacher fails to complete the full period of one year contract, none of the completion bonus shall be paid according to Korea Labor Standard Law. Completion bonus will be paid by bank transfer no later than one month after the teacher has left the institute. Korean tax will be withheld. Any outstanding debts incurred by the teacher will be subtracted from the completion bonus.

Sorry dumbasses.....severance is paid upon completion of the contract...not one month later...my gods you people are stupid!

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

Monthly Salary W2,000,000
Severance Pay W2,000,000 a month Salary per year

Absolutely crap salary for the hours involved....if I was desperate for money I would want at least 3,500,000 won to work the schedule they have set up! Stupid people made up this contract and are obviously hoping that they find someone stupid enough to sign it!

Keep looking this is a recipe for misery!

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Grotto]

I have been sending emails to several of the recruiting companies questioning their job ads

"Why does your job ad say 30 hours a week and also state that the hours are 2-10:30 Mon-Fri? Any moron can figure out thats a 42.5 hour week!"

Some people get quite upset when you question the accuracy of their ads.

[tony602]

I didnt have to read anything else besides 22.5 80min classes a week....Im a public school teacher from back home....in block schedule formats, 4 per day, 5 days a week.....and for most hogwons here, 30 50min classes....its garbage....didnt have to read anything else.

[Plutocracy]

[harryh]

What is so sad, is that a newbie somewhere will sign this contract.

[Qinella]

I almost threw up while reading that contract. How is it possible someone would even consider it to the point they'd post it on here? It must have been a joke.