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leeshera
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 Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:46 pm Post subject: how to negotiate return airfare |
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Tips, advice, eg. key phrases, paragraph format, examples...
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archaeologist5
Joined: 25 Dec 2013
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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There is nothing to negotiate. If it is part of the contract then you are to get it. If it isn't or your contract states that to receive it you must actually be leaving the country then you must abide by those contract points.
I will say this though, some people will change the new contract to read differently from the one you signed then turn around and say the new contract is the one they are going by.
It happened to me one year and those words were actually said to me in a meeting with the district people. I said that is fine but that wasn't the contract I signed nor was it the one I was going by.
After about 30 minutes of repeating the same thing through different words, they finally realized that they had to pay me and I got my airfare even though I wasn't leaving the country.
I told my co-teacher at that time after the meeting that I wasn't going to fight over the money and would have left it up to them if they remained firm. It just isn't worth my time to 'negotiate' or 'fight' over something so trivial. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: how to negotiate return airfare |
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| leeshera wrote: |
Tips, advice, eg. key phrases, paragraph format, examples...
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You can find typical examples of this in most of the contracts in the review thread. (Make sure to avoid copying one was criticized.)
If you're planning on leaving Korea after this contract, I wouldn't really negotiate much on that point. I would tell schools and recruiters that return airfare (or an extra 150,000 Won per month instead) is a deal breaker. Or an extra 100,000 plus one way airfare to Korea.
I've taken a few jobs where I did negotiate fewer hours or some other benefit in place of airfare, but those times I was already in Korea and didn't plan to leave right after the contract. |
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YTMND
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Location: You're the man now dog!!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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The point of airfare is the same as transportation costs to commute to work. In the end, if used for the intended purpose, the teacher sees none of the money.
The problem in Korea is that you have greedy teachers who try to get airfare when they aren't leaving which is like getting 1.5 severance. You also have schools that hold out to the end and then refuse not to pay it knowing the teacher will leave. This is like getting .5 severance.
What can you do? When I have a good impression I won't get money for something I simply perform with less of a workload. |
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