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yuyake79
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:52 pm Post subject: Should my boss pay for my flight home? |
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Hi...,
Are employers required by law pay for your flight back home? I changed work places after my previous contract. My new boss told me that to qualify for the paid airfare I would have to work there for 2 years and I only signed on for 1 year, and so my boss didn't put the paid airfare on my contract.
I signed the contract so it's probably too late, but I just wanted to know if my employer should be paying for my flight home when I finish my contract even though he didn't put it in the contract.
I heard that employers are required by law to give you the severance pay after you complete 12 months even if it's not stated on your contract, but I'm not if that's the case with the airline ticket. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Airline tickets are a contractual matter, and not mandatory  |
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PatrickGHBusan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:32 am Post subject: |
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It is not a legal requirement. As NYC Gal said it is a contractual clause.
Severance is a separate issue, just like pension.
You will just have to pay for your return airfare. You could try to discuss this with your employer after you have been working for a while. Depending on your relationship with him/her airfare could be negociated. However, the employer does not owe you airfaire..keep it in mind. |
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lifeinkorea
Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Location: somewhere in China
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| I changed work places after my previous contract. |
Why is this important to know? It means you might have been legally able to get airfare from that school. Now that you are at a new school, you have less of a chance to collect on it.
I have been in the same situation and have done same. I feel morally speaking, if I am just going to another school, then I am not going to try to collect on it.
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| My new boss told me that to qualify for the paid airfare I would have to work there for 2 years and I only signed on for 1 year, and so my boss didn't put the paid airfare on my contract. |
Call him out on it. Ask him to show you an SMOE, GEPIK, or EPIK contract which supports his claim. When he can't, ask him to show a contract from a major hagwon which supports his claim.
Make him argue his point for a while. Do it again for like 3 days straight. When he gets frustrated and admits he can't prove this or he denies he can't, then say you would like to have the condition added to the contract. If he refuses, then ask for 100,000 more per month.
I disagree with PatrickGHBusan that you should wait after you have been working there for a while. I feel if this is very important to you, then you should make a strong case on this, just short of refusing to work. Don't say you won't, but make it apparent that this is not how schools usually do things. They usually pay for a flight back to their home country.
Even if you don't get the money, by making a case here, you can use it later on when things like vacation time or overtime issues come up. You can keep reminding him, "I am working here knowing you won't pay my flight back home." He has to acknowledge that then each time he tries to take advantage of you.
Whatever a school doesn't do that is normally done can be used against them.
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PatrickGHBusan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Fair points by lifeinkorea.
His strategy is sound but the OP better be ready to play the game well and to know EXACTLY how far he can take this or he will put himself in a very bad spot.
Just understand OP that this is not a LEGAL issue it will be a NEGOCIATED issue. You need to figure out what leverage you have, hence why I suggested you wait until you have worked there for a while and have some actual in-school leverage (you doing a good job) to bring to the table. |
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