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[jadarite]

I got an offer to work at an E Bo Young school, and it seems like they don't go exactly by month. They say you will teach 100 hours in a "session" and get paid based on this.

I saw that and realized if the 100 hours goes past 1 month's time, then I might not get paid a consistent monthly rate. I am not worried about losing a few man won, but I don't want lose a month's pay.

Has anyone worked for E Bo Young, and should it be requested that "session" be replaced with "1 month (being 30 days)"?

[cruisemonkey]

I've never worked for them and never would for the following reasons:

Any employer trying to get you to sign a contract with undefined 'sessions' should raise a 'red flag' in your mind.

When the employer states 100 hours, I'm sure they mean 600 minutes of teaching - not 100 classes. Always have a 'teaching hour' defined in your contract.

[Otherside]

The session is approximatly 1 month, (usually 20-21 working days). Sometime the session runs over into the next month (i.e. Feb with 3 national holidays = 17 working days, so the feb session will include 3 days in march). In my experience the session system hurts your potential to gain overtime especially when public holidays are involved. That being said, you will work 12 sessions in a year, so your monthly rate will be consistent.

Word of advice, the 100 "teaching hours" is in fact 100 hours not 100 classes, so work on 133x45min classes. You will also have to attend Weekend training sessions throughout the year (1 "orientation of sat/sun and another 3-4 saturdays) unpaid. Vacation is "determined according to the E. Bo-Young Calender" so, your 5 days in summer and 5 in winter includes weekends, so 3 working days in summer and 3 in winter... and if I recall the contract does not include sick days or pension.

[CentralCali]

Just like with any other outfit in this country, forget how franchises are operated in your home country. Korean franchises are done the opposite way. Here the local franchisee calls the shots.

I worked for an EBY school in Incheon from mid-February 2005 to mid-February 2006. The contract, of course, was with the local school. It was not with the EBY organization itself. My contract specified pension, health coverage, taxes, and even sick days. It also specified that an hour for the purposes of a teaching hour was 50 minutes. The monthly salaray was predicated on a month, also. It wasn't based on a session.

The scum I worked for did cheat, but the stunts they pulled weren't on shorting the teacher for hours worked. The EBY headquarters managed to do exactly nothing to help us at the end of the year and that's because, as I said above, franchises here are nothing at all like franchises in our home country.