Gwangju foreign school and pension
From another blog
This post is about the Gwangju Foreign school and their handling of the pension from another site.
The school only recently adopted the Korean National Pension, so in a sense the owners of the school have been flouting the law for a good 8 years. Thats not surprising considering their track record. Mrs Holley in a meeting with the staff in September of 2007 tried to explain it away by saying the school was given permission to not have it. Mr Holley who supposedly has a legal background should have been there to support her but wasn't. Now no body gives an institute, or buisness permission to not offer the pension to it's staff, so what she said was rubbuish . The only way a Korean buisness or academy gets exempted is if an alternative plan is used. Of course there wasn't any such alternative plan at Gwangju Foreign school, so Mrs Holley swung a fast one over on unsuspecting teachers who were more concerned about hanging on to their jobs than challenging the issue.
At the meeting Mrs Holley did offer back payments to those who requested it, but no documentation or forms were provided for the teachers to show what the options available really were. In reality the teachers should have taken the owners up on the offer and requested that they paye the 4.5%of all of their previous earnings. Unfortunately for the teachers this was glossed over by Mrs Holley in such a way as to make it appear to be too complicated to consider. Teachers didn't get proper representation to ensure that they got a fair deal, nor were they aware of just what was happening. This was probably what was intended, and is just another exploitation job by unscrupulous owners. Seems to be the grain at a lot of places. A little dissappointing to see this side of the Holleys especially since they profess to be upright church going citizens and pillars of the community.
I also find it incredible that the the other owner Mr Holley who professes to have passed the bar exam for the state of West Virginia should allow his wife to get set up so that she would commit a form of purgery. She blatently lied like she always does, and although no oath was taken she still knowingly, made a very false statement. It's all the more serious because her and her husbands Christian background places a premium on honesty. It's also no credit to Mr Holley as a lawyer that he should run a buisness this way, and if there is a term "shonkey lawyer" then it's certainly appropriate in this situation.
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Pension is a bonus for English teachers, and most of us teachers know all the ins and outs of the programe. Find it hard to believe that the Holleys could be so naive as to try and pull a fast one like that. Shesh! Don't they know that they are making fools of themselves by lieing, or are they that thick skinned, and couldn't care less.
The guy professes to be an honest Mormon too. Really plays on his service to his church, and how holy he is. Can't believe he or they would cut corners the way they did with the pension plan. F--ing hypoocrits. i'm sure the better members of his faith are feeling a little uncomfortable knowing how he's doing his buisness
Pension is a big thing for expat teachers, because the sum of money you accumulate even after a years work is quite substantial. Thats assuming of course that the institution you are working at is obeying the law, and has the pension at least for those employees who want it.
Glad to see that the entry in this blog about how the Holleys were late in implementing the pension, is being cross referenced by other internet users. This blog as it is in Daves Esl Cafe is being widely viewed for the Holleys and the pension issue.
The pension was made mandatory for foreigeners in 1995 or thereabouts. Unfortunately only those persons from countries with reciprocal agreements are eligible to claim the deductions and the employers contribution back.
Need someone else On TV instead of the Holly dood. Someone with integrity methinks.
Holley is in a sense guilty of Fraud for the years when the pension wasn't offered. The staff eligible for a payeout were taken for thousands of dollars.
There are many hogwons out there who scrape the bottom of the barrel to do everything right, and then you get some waeguk who thinks he's above everybody else, try to pull a fast one on his unsuspecting employees. Aishhh
Holley and his family are no better than shit. It's interesting that he helped start up the Pusan Foreign school, because from the reviews it seems to have his same crooked trademark.
He makes such a big thing out of his membership in these so called Bar Associations, but breaks the law left right and center. Someone should write a complaint to the ethics committees of the Bar Associations he belongs to.
Saw a similar posting about the same thing somewhere else. If teachers anywhere want to check up on their pension status, they have to go to the local pension office with an I.D. The pension office staff are very accomodating. Get someone to write the directions in Korean, and show this to the taxi driver. You aint going to find the place otherwise. Sorry about that. Only a few of you will be able to find it on your own.
I read some where that the pension fund really got going after the IMF cris in 1997 or thereabouts to ensure The korean public had a safety net when times were tough.
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