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PeaceBlondie

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  1. I've never seen a work permit, in seven years here.

    It's the employer's responsibility to provide the paperwork for such, but ultimately the employee's responsibility to get the WP. Wouldn't the proper action be, in this case, to quit the job when an employer refuses to abide by the law (or is too incompetent to do so)? Why put one's self and teaching career in jeopardy as well? At my school, we've had unannounced Labor Dept. raids to make sure everyone had their WP.

    After enduring 13 months of tourist visa runs with a school employer who couldn't get the documentation right for a non-immigrant B visa, I quit. Of course, they then promised me the moon. But I'd heard that before. :)

    That was 2003-2005. The Labour Office was clueless, too. I saw it was hopeless, and that administrators were almost all incompetent or lazy. It would have been great to get a good school.

  2. We know legal teachers who teach legally, at government schools, without a bachelor's degree. It's not common, not recommended, but some schools do it legally. I stopped teaching when three schools who knew that I had a degree, were too lazy or incompetent to get me a WP or visa extension. It's a violation of Teaching Forum guidelines to state that you have to have a bachelor's degree to teach legally here. If you prove otherwise, I'll stop shouting.

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