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koreatimes
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
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| There are other things in my contract that have been broken. |
You need to learn how to discern the important clauses from the bad ones. Right now bickering over kitchen tables and orientation is not as important as being paid 1/2 of whatever you should be paid.
The part with 3 days of orientation does have importance as it pertains to this pay. If they say that you had a week for orientation, and there is this clause, then that means they owe you 2 days.
Orientation doesn't always mean you sit down in a seminar room somewhere with a packet of information with 29 other teachers and get introduced to the wonders of kimchi and English teaching standards. It could be as simple as them showing you the classroom.
If you came to Korea hoping for a real orientation, I am sorry, but you are sadly mistaken. Anyway, address your pay issues because that's the only thing you will get from them. If you feel cheated by the rest, then plan your exit. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Does your contract refer to you as an employee or as a contractor?
Note: the general consensus around here is that the contractor thing is illegal, but it's relevant to your employer's interpretation of the contract. |
It's legal to be a contractor IF the contract is properly set up. Few E-2's (regardless of what SOME people claim) would meet the exact criteria for doing so but they do exist. Unfortunately there is no one set of guidelines covering E-2's for all relevant departments. Immigration says you can't be an IC on a E-2 visa. But the tax office says you can. The labor board seems somewhere in the middle on this judging by people's experiences here. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| northway wrote: |
Does your contract refer to you as an employee or as a contractor?
Note: the general consensus around here is that the contractor thing is illegal, but it's relevant to your employer's interpretation of the contract. |
It's legal to be a contractor IF the contract is properly set up. Few E-2's (regardless of what SOME people claim) would meet the exact criteria for doing so but they do exist. Unfortunately there is no one set of guidelines covering E-2's for all relevant departments. Immigration says you can't be an IC on a E-2 visa. But the tax office says you can. The labor board seems somewhere in the middle on this judging by people's experiences here. |
It just strikes me as a bit ridiculous that you can be considered a part-time employee by your place of employment while they simultaneously sponsor you for a visa that requires you be a full-time employee. |
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