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philipjames · Joined: 03 Feb 2003

At my public school an 'hour' is forty minutes. I got my pay slip today and a lot of overtime wasn't there. I pointed this matter out, and they told me that an 'overtime hour' is sixty minutes, not forty! WTF? At my last elementary school (also GEPIK) an overtime hour was forty minutes. What are they trying to pull? Has anyone else encountered a similar situation?

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

If a teaching hour is 40 minutes, an overtime is 40 minutes (though I have taught for full hours and been paid for a teaching hour). If it doesn't stipulate in your contract that an overtime hour is 60 minutes, you case might hold up at the labor board.

Atavistic · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject:

Nope, OT can be up to 60 mins and is determined by each school.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

Really. just count yourself lucky that you 22 regular hours are only 40 mins...I don't complain.

marlow · Joined: 06 Feb 2005

Dude, just talk it out with your school. It's not like the money is coming out of anyone's pocket except the princip---- I mean the taxpayer's.

wings · Joined: 09 Nov 2006

You might not be able to get more money for the hours already worked. But tell them that in the future, you won't work overtime unless you get paid for a 40 minute "hour".

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

Atavistic · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

gajackson1 · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

I'm guessing I'm not the only one to find that c&p from their own handbook so riddled with errors that I'd never consider working there . . . Rolling Eyes

(I say that knowing that there are 'good' EPIK/GEPIK schools; they're just as hard to find as a 'good' Wonderland job.)

Regarding the OP - I think the situation is fairly commonplace, and also think that you can probably work out a compromise of some sort. And also you have done no small service by bringing it to the attention of others. (I mean that in all seriousness, knowing full well this topic has come up before.)

When it comes down to the lawl, however, MoL reigns supremo. MoL Labor Act Standards supercede ALL labor contracts/bosses demands in the RoK.

At least, that is the theory.

Regards & best of luck in getting it to where you are happy with it,

G.

Bingo · Joined: 22 Jun 2006

Yeah, and when do they inform you that an overtime hour is 60 minutes, and not forty minutes as with regular classes? At orientation. In other words, AFTER you've already signed the contract. Any decent organization would put that information in the contract. But that's not Korea's style. They hit you with the nasty stuff AFTER you've signed up. JUst like my school telling me I can't go home at lunch, AFTER I signed up.

Korea Sparkling.

Atavistic · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject:

My public school contract in the US didn't specify every little thing either. At my school, we could go home at 2:30. At the school down the street, 4:00. Same contract.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

Atavistic · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject:

Have you read a standard GEPIK contract, dude? It doesn't spell out teaching hours. Hence, you get stuck with 40 min regular classes and 60 min OT and that IS "a teaching hour [as] defined by the terms of your contract."

If you have the standard GEPIK contract then it is, as I wrote:

"Nope, OT can be up to 60 mins and is determined by each school."

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

^ He's right... Very Happy