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[Otherside]

With Chuseok coming up I have a question regarding overtime.
My contract states that I must work 100 teaching hours a month. But with September having only 20 working days and Chuseok taking up 3 of them, will I have to teach 100 hours in 17 days? And how many hours will I have to teach prior to overtime pay?

Thanks in advance!

[yingwenlaoshi]

Overtime is daily or weekly. It's not monthly unless you signed that away in your contract somehow. This 120, 100 hours/month thing isn't logical. It's just an estimate. You're actually working whatever number of hours per week. That's how it would work for public schools. Any hours outside your contracted schedule are also OT. No matter how many hours you've put in during your contracted schedule.

If you're under contract to teach 100 hrs/wk, it's 25 hrs a week, 5 hrs/day. If it's a national holiday, you've put in 5 hours. It's not deducted from your total hours. That's just ridiculous. There's a reason for it being a holiday. If you're deducted hours for this then all it is is a day off without pay. Not how it works. If you normally do OT on holiday days, I'm sorry, but you'll lose that. OT is only OT if you acually work it.

[ajuma]

Um...wouldn't it be best to ask your boss this question? Not trying to be a wise a&& but s/he's the one with the answer that you need.

[sheeon]

doesn't your contract say that you get all national holidays off?

[mrsquirrel]

You will have to fit it into the 17 days. It's hard slog but you will need to do it.

not that bad though only 6 classes a day for 17 days or so.

[Pak Yu Man]

Do you get paid more if it's a 31 day month compared to a 30 day month?

If it works one way...it should work the other.

Vacations are paid vacations...tell your boss that.

Hakwon=casino everything favors the house

[Otherside]

Thanks for your replies.

I agree I should ask my boss this. But I'd feel a lot better going into that awkward conversation (as all conversations regarding money are) armed with a few facts.

Regarding "do i get paid more for a 31/30 day month"
Well, a month has between 20-23 working days. So assuming I worked 5 hours everyday I would reach my 100 hours exactly on a 20 working day month and on a 23 working day month I would be owed 15 hours overtime.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[garykasparov]

[Otherside]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[ajuma]

Read your contract. If it says 100 hours per month, then anything over 100 hours is overtime. If it says 30 hours per week, then anything over 30 hours is overtime. If it says 20 teaching days and there are only 17 teaching days in the month, then you'd better talk to your boss!

[buster brown]

For the vast majority of us, we are contracted for a certain number of hours per month. We're not on salary. Therefore, your boss is within his rights to schedule your 100 hours within the 17 class days this month. I don't like to lose overtime pay because I took a national holiday, but that's the way it works here.

[Roch]

[thegadfly]

When I worked at Wonderland, holidays were counted as a 5 hour day in the calculation -- of course, my contract had me working 120 class-hours a month, which is 30 a week or 6 a day, but there you are.

I DID get paid overtime in the longer months, but I also believe I got docked in the shorter months -- they calculated the daily rate per pay period, which ran for a calendar month, regardless of the number of work days in that calendar month.

My current gig calculates OT differently, in a way that is fair in a different sense, but is atypical enough to skip for these purposes.