Re: SHOULD I PAY MY TEACHERS VACATION ENTITLEMENTS?
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:50 am
Some things have become readily apparent through monkey's responses, both here and on forumease. 1-He doesn't "own" the school at all. Rather, he's like many other expats who've gotten married and opened a little cram school in the sticks. His wife is the real owner. He just works there. He can't own it, regardless. A local person, by law, needs to be the fuzhe ren in a cram school business. 2- His much-trumpeted "high pay" for "his teachers" is the result of two things: First, he doesn't have many classes, so cannot offer block hours, nor a full-time schedule. Second, he's not licensed to sponsor foreign teachers. He's a small operation in the sticks that cannot offer ARC, laobao, jianbao, nianjia nor a livable number of hours (to say nothing of accident insurance or year-end bonuses). He has to rely on APRC/JFRV holders who have gaps in their schedules for his staffing needs. So, yeah, he pays 1000nt per hour to freelancers for those few hours he has on offer. He has to, or no one would take the hours. Monkey could have saved himself a lot of grief in this debate if he'd just admitted: I don't pay yearly leave because I'm really only offering a half dozen or so under-the-table hours per week to guys who have other jobs or sources of income elsewhere. I'm not big enough to offer real employment and, thus, the regulations for REAL jobs do not apply to my situation. Oh yeah, and I don't run the school, nor really have a clue about the regulations governing the buxiban industry. My wife is the one who actually owns and operates the place. I just show up with my sticky balls.