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[Lekker]

Help me.

My employer is pulling a string, more like a rope, around my neck. I need some support here. I can't keep my feet down if they start to pull too hard. I had the labor board web page saved on my laptop, but then it crashed and now I need it again.

Please help.

Thank you, have a wonderful day.

[CentralCali]

Can you expound on what the problem is? Maybe some of the board members can give you the information you need that directly addresses your problem with your boss.

[polonius]

[wylies99]

Talking to someone at Labor won't accomplish much. You probably need to file a complaint IF your employer has violated your contract and/or labor law. You will need to protect all of your documents and you will also need the help of someone who knows Korean because the forms are all in Korean.

[Lekker]

Contract states I am to work no more than 6 hours per day.

Employer tells me that I am to work at camp for three days.

Schedule:

Tuesday: 9am - 10pm
Wednesday: 7am - 10pm
Thursday: 7am - 3pm

Contract states that I am to be payed for overtime, 20,000 per hour. I am told I will be payed 50,000 per day. Aside from that, the job itself is cool. Just this camp nonsense is not. They asked me two months ago if I would be willing to do it. I said sorry, I don't feel like it, not in the contract.

Now they say that I have to do it regardless, and that I wouldn't be working the entire time, but being with kids from 9am Tuesday to 3pm on Thursday would be 40 hours, subtract 6 hours per day (3 days x 6 =18 hours) gives me 22 hours over time, multiplied by 20,000 won should give me 440,000 won. I smell a big load of BS.

[flaptastic]

Just tell them exactly what you have explained in your last post. That is, if you are willing to do those extra hours. If not, then mention that you were asked in the past to do the camp and declined. It's not in your contract, so don't worry. If your boss tries to kick up a fuss then just keep calm about it - they're just power tripping, I'm sure you know how Koreans love a good power trip when they're given the upper hand in these kinda situations. Leave the Labour board option as an absolute last resort. Good luck

[garykasparov]

If it is possible, record the conversations that take place between you and your employer. The labor board, should you choose to go that route, would have an interesting conversation over comments such as "I have to do it regardless, and that I wouldn't be working the entire time."

[Lekker]

These people can not be reasoned with.

I told them yesterday "no."

They said I have to. I told them to pay me more. They said they can not afford it. They can. They are loaded.

In the long run, I had reccommended some people to work for them, because, the job is alright without this camp nonsense. I told these people I had reccommended not to work for them.

Now they have to scramble at the last minute to PAY a recruiter a HEFTY fee to bring them some employees, and then, when I come back from camp, which I will not do anything at except work only 6 hours, I will go to the labor board. It will not be the first time I have done this to an employer here for violating a contract. It's really easy. If your employer is fn you around, take them to the Labor Board. Don't think twice. Don't feel as if you are doing something wrong. Just do it.

*beep* working in Korea. I've applied to work in Saudi.

[buymybook]

[CentralCali]

"I can't afford to pay you what the contract says I must so I won't pay you that" is pretty much the definition of unreasonable.

[Lekker]

About to ship out of this dump of a camp now. Just asked her "when do you plan on paying me for this?"

"Oh, uh," she looked all confused, "You will be payed by the end of the month."

None of the other teachers have been paid here either for their time, yet. Time for a trip to the Ministry of Labor.

[KYC]

paid