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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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 Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: Korean labor laws and teaching |
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Hi, I'm back in Korea. Working for a govt school. I'm contracted to work 22 hours a week -but only teach 22 classes. So my school is making me work in my lunch time (3 X a week) talking to students. It's very tiring and I want to stop it before it gets out of hand and becomes my normal working conditions. I need a regular break to get away from the kids
Can anyone advise the Korean labor laws about minimum hours before public teachers get a lunchbreak? I'd like a website or some text quoting labor laws that I can print and show to the school .
The Principal has also said that I have to stay in my classroom during my lunchbreak. Is this legal??? Am I a prisoner during lunch times, or can I go for a walk in the sun to re-charge.
I'd appreciate any help/advise. I used to know this stuff when I worked Hagwons - but I lost all my references when I left Korea last time. Thanks. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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I assume your 22 classes are 45mins each, however this should be considered 1 class= 1hr, check your contract!
Your lunch hour is your own, you can go where you want so long as you tell someone.
From the labour board
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Article 53 (Recess Hours)
(1) An employer shall allow a recess period of more than 30 minutes for every 4 working hours and more than 1 hour for every 8 working hours during the working hours.
(2) A recess period may be freely used by workers. |
Please post what your contract says about your hours
You can find what you need to know at Galbijim |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: Korean labor laws and teaching |
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| oldfatfarang wrote: |
Hi, I'm back in Korea. Working for a govt school. I'm contracted to work 22 hours a week -but only teach 22 classes. So my school is making me work in my lunch time (3 X a week) talking to students. It's very tiring and I want to stop it before it gets out of hand and becomes my normal working conditions. I need a regular break to get away from the kids
Can anyone advise the Korean labor laws about minimum hours before public teachers get a lunchbreak? I'd like a website or some text quoting labor laws that I can print and show to the school .
The Principal has also said that I have to stay in my classroom during my lunchbreak. Is this legal??? Am I a prisoner during lunch times, or can I go for a walk in the sun to re-charge.
I'd appreciate any help/advise. I used to know this stuff when I worked Hagwons - but I lost all my references when I left Korea last time. Thanks. |
Sounds like the lame axx idea that my co-teacher tried to foist off on me as well (public school in Gyeonggi province).
He said it was required and I said I quit. He would have my 30 day notice on his desk by the end of the day.
It was changed the next day. |
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ChuckECheese
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OP certainly got a nazi principal. 
Tell him to go f*ck himself and do what ever you want to do during your lunch break or any break time. If he give you sh*t, just smile and scratch your head with your middle finger and continue doing what you're doing. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| One class = one teaching hour, whether it's a 40-minute elementary, 45-minute MS, or 50-minute HS class. Anything else is not lawful. Try saying the words 'labour board' and see if it gets a sudden result. What you describe should not be happening at a public school and such a public school does not deserve to have a FT. |
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jstrain
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:40 am Post subject: |
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Spot on folks. I'll give them the good news about my lunch hour.
My contract is very vague - it doesn't stipulate break times, maximum teaching hours per day, max teaching between breaks etc. It shouldn't have to, after all, this is the govt, right?
I've just seen in the employment booklet that,
"NSET shall work eight ( hours op day (inclusive of an (1) hour lunch for five (5) calendar days per week from Monday to Friday and shall not work on Saturdays, Sundays, and any national holidays of the Republic of Korea unless required by ?????????/ In this case, additional pay or other remuneration will be given."
So that's settled. Can anyone tell me the maximum classes a Govt teacher can teach in one day , i.e, school classes and afterschool classes. I was scheduled to teach 8 class hours but they reduced it to 7 after I complained. And now that day is a school festival so all my classes are canceled - except the afterschool classes ( you've got to wonder?). |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:49 am Post subject: Re: Korean labor laws and teaching |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
He said it was required and I said I quit. He would have my 30 day notice on his desk by the end of the day.
It was changed the next day. |
There you go. The solution to every BS directive you get. If you can't walk away from a job in this way, then they have you over a abarrel, and you will always be at their mercy.
Bravo. |
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