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Q: Do you trust the foreign affairs office?

Hey guys

I finished my contract, and the private  school owes me approximately 16,000 Rmb on my last day.

 

My last day was on December 27, 2014. I've stuck around my town to make sure

I receive what I'm owed. Long story short, the owner has a history of not paying staff once they leave the country. Also, chinese staff have yet to be paid since November. Many chinese staff have left due to this, and most foreign staff have only been paid 1/3 of theirs since December.

 

I've got the foreign affairs office involved and they said they guarantee that I will be paid. However I'm very skeptical of this. I teach in a very small town, owners tend to have connections, not to mention old mentalities of Chinese sticking with Chinese, my Chinese friends have even said that they wouldn't leave it for the government to handle. 

 

Lastly, all parties are aware of my visa coming to an end.

And I've told them that this final salary is my ticket home (I've stretched the truth here to get my salary sooner).

 

What would you guys do in this situation? I'm considering walking into the owners office and demanding payment while the other staff watch in horror, but hopefully you can come up with something better.

 

Cheers

 

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Can't get your money back? A bit angry? Hammer your boss' car into pieces, he probably drives a nice BMW like most bosses in China. A buddy of mine couldn't get 10000RMB that his ex-employer owed him, he knew what car (including the license plate) belonged to his boss, he waited one day not far from the school until his ex-boss arrived, the man parked his car next to the entry, my buddy came with a big hammer and destroyed the car, no one among the bystanders had enough guts to say anything, the repairs likely cost him more than 10000RMB, now they are even.

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Sensible and simple !

Englteachted:

So your salary is not late (according to you 15th of the month), and you have not stated when your visa expires. But you are supporting violence and vandalism. 

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Oh, and I like the car suggestion too if all else fails devil

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Foreign Affairs office? Do you mean SAFEA?  For the last few months this same BS story has been posted over and over again. 

You fail to include vital information. When is the normal pay date? And when exactly is your visa up?

For the OP, call the CFTU, they will magical fix your problems. 

Also you time table doesn't make sense. Chinese leaving because their salary is a month late?

Foreign teachers being paid a 3rd of their salary? Are you and them working there illegally?

Anyone who really has salary issues call  SAFEA, but remember you can't claim your salary is late unless it is past the pay date in your contract.

I can't believe people are still falling for these BS posts about the same damn story

dss2010:

I didn't want to get into the nuts and bolts. But since you suggested so nicely
 
1. Yes this foreign affairs department is what I found when I looked up SAFEA in Zhejiang.
 
2. I haven't seen any similar threads.
 
3. The regular pay date is the 15th of every month (in Lieu of course). 
With the exception of your last salary - you are to receive this on your final day with the school, plus anything else.
For example: My November's salary was supposed to be paid on December 15th. And on my final day with the school - December 27th. I'm only paid for the 27 days I worked for in December, plus bonuses. 
 
4. Chinese staff have left because of similar reasons. Our remaining Chinese staff haven't received their July/December 2014 salaries. And as far as I know, the ones who left were not compensated since.
 
5. Each of the foreign teachers work here legally. We are paid a third of our salaries when the owner says the school has no money. This has happened twice with me. But he promises to pay us the rest at an undisclosed date...
 
To clarify, I was suppose to receive what I'm owed on December 27th. It's almost mid January now.
Sorry for any typos, these tablets
 
 

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"With the exception of your last salary - you are to receive this on your final day with the school, plus anything else."

Is that clearly stated in your contract? Your previous post, you stated you contacted Foreign Affairs in your home country, and you also contacted Foreign Affairs in China? BS. Foreign Affairs dept. has nothing to do with SAFEA. If your contract stated that you were to be paid on the last day, SAFEA would have made the school pay you. I've been through this. And those lazy @#$$ don't leave the office, it only takes a phone call to get the school scared. 

And here's another piece of BS that proves you are a troll . You claim you have not seen similar posts!? 

How about we do this. We both agree to allow admin to expose our anon posts. 

 

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dss2010:

What's with the troll paranoia on this site, just ask me to clarify if it was confusing 
 
Yes this is exactly what's in my contract. And the school acknowledges it owes its staff money.
The SAFEA in my province gave me a number for the closest city office near my county - Wenzhou. After calling the Wenzhou office, I was given the number to the foreign to affairs department in my county. When I called this number, they identified themselves as the foreign affairs department. 
 
I rang them this morning and they said they guarantee that I will receive my salary. The problem is that the school currently has NO Money. 
How valid is this guarantee? Isn't the school liable for all this salary not being paid, even if it has no  money? 
 
But thanks for being he cancer that killed this thread

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Englteachted:

There you go again, mixing up what you say. The other staff have nothing to do with your situation. SAFEA deals with legally hired foreign teachers. Schools must keep X amount of money with the government.. You are full of it. And you still have not stated when your visa expires.

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Look at this troll's previous posts.

Stiggs:

Just did, editing now.

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