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in my final hour of work I am handed bullsh!t

 
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kshellru



Joined: 28 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 4:23 am    Post subject: in my final hour of work I am handed bullsh!t Reply with quote

I've posted a few times before. it's just an ongoing battle...
The short version (if you can call it that) is this:
didn't like my job. Started a full time contract on November 1st. FINALLY got a letter of release from my boss after a lot of hoopla. Got a new job. new boss knows old boss, all paper work was figured out (but old boss was being a baby and wouldn't even look at me, or give me my LOR-he'd only give it directly to the new director, wierdo). So I finish up, tell my students I'm leaving because of bad hours, even though the school can't do anything cuz they're adults, bla bla, make a point to say the school is great, etc etc so that the business stays good there (even after old boss eing jerky jerk jerk).
so it's my LAST hour of work. My director is nowhere to be found. His SON hands me a letter saying that I need to pay back my one way airfare to the tune of 1 000 000 won, because I started (full time, i think i was in an illegal contract before that) on November 1st and he wrote my release letter for April 28th. Making me two days short of six months (even though those two days are non-working days, ie. sat and sun). AND that I am being deducted for a vacation day that I took and some sick hours, all to the tune of 220 000. (I brought doctors notes at the time, and there was never any talk of paying back vacation days.). My contract doesn't say anything about either of those things, and they were never mentioned before. My contract also says I'll have to pay back my airfare if I don't finish six months, but I DID finish six months.
I just can't believe he handed me this and then ran away (the son I mean) and that the director never spoke to me about it before, but left it until a FRIDAY night when I couldn't do anything about it. Now I'm in Thailand getting a new visa to work, so I can't really do anything from here either.
He also refused to pay into my pension. Is that legal? I thought employers HAD to pay pension. On perusing my contract as well, I found that it said that working over six hours a day would be considered overtime, which I wasn't paid for either.
What should I do?
Who shoudl I call?
Is there worker's legal aid here?
Will the labour board help me?
I REFUSE to let him get away with this. The last five teachers (myself included) have left on bad terms. I would like to blacklist him but I don't know how.
Advice.
Help?
thanks so much.
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