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[Ghostinthemachine]

I thought I read on this board that employers were obliged to pay return airfare but my hogwan is refusing to pay for my airfare back on the grounds that I was already in Korea when they employed me. I paid my own airfare here and found a job afterwards.

Does anybody know what the legal position on this is?

I'm also going to e-mail EFL law and see what they know about this but I don't know their e-mail address.

[Son Deureo!]

What does your contract say?

You can reach EFL Law at: administration@ efl-law.com.

[Ghostinthemachine]

My contract says that if I was resident in Korea at the time of my contract they will not reimburse airfare.

When I queried that (before starting) my manager told me that this did not apply as I was not resident as such I was here on a tourist visa and that was just to prevent teachers who had their airfare already paid for by one school claiming for airfare again from a second school.

This manager left a few months ago and the new manager claims that this exempts the school from having to pay my airfare.

Oh and thanks for the e-mail address!

[Zyzyfer]

Oh, manager switching! You've been nerfed. Schools are not 100% required by any law to pay your airfare, unless it's written into the contract. Gotta discuss your contract with EFL, as previously mentioned.

[Ghostinthemachine]

Thanks Zyzyfer EFL law has confirmed what you said.

[kimcheeking]

If the school paid for your VISA run to Japan that is usually considered the equivalent of return fare home...

anyhow paid airfare is custom not law.

[Ghostinthemachine]

kimcheeking wrote

[Ghostinthemachine]

I've just seen this on the thread about The Little School on the Hill.