Know Your Rights
Date: 5 August 2012
Teachers employed in China, whether native or foreign are expected to abide by the law of the country. These specific regulations are designed for Chinese teachers, Contractual obligations for foreign teachers, if using the standard SAFEA contract, may be uniform across China. The reference in the standard refers simply to abiding by the laws of China. There may or may not be pages added to the standard contract outlining duties and responsibilities for a specific establishment.
Unfortunately for them, Chinese teachers must undergo annual medicals. That is in my view unnecessary. They aren't airline pilots, after all! As for foreign teachers, they are generally not forced to undergo annual medicals so long as they do not change jobs.
I used to be a secondary school teacher in the UK. There I only had to have one medical exam during ten years of teaching, and that was after graduating from a college of education in order to be registered provisionally with the GTC. That meant I was licensed to teach. After I had completed my 2 years probation successfully, I received full registration.
In my first 6 years of teaching legally in China, I had no medicals. But I had one in the UK before coming to China. The college FAO in my first job tried to force me to take a Chinese medical some four weeks after my arrival, and after I had taught without a Residence Permit for three weeks, at which time they offered me a teaching contract. Of course, I had no idea of this illegal and wily procedure when I applied for my Z visa for China back in the UK before coming to China. - I flatly refused to take another medical, and so did my former wife, who was with me at that time and employed as a foreign teacher by the college too. We completed our two-year contracts at that college, and moved on to another part of China to continue our teaching careers.
Personally, I do not pay too much attention to abiding to the laws of the country. Anyway, I wouldn't know what they are. No Chinese employer has ever introduced them to me, though he is obliged to do so by one of the conditions of the SAFEA contract. I guess his English is not up to that task!
Messages In This Thread
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- foxy -- 5 August 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Mark Wheeler -- 8 September 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Turnoi -- 9 September 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Dragonized -- 19 September 2012
- Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- KJK -- 8 October 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Dragonized -- 8 October 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- foxy -- 10 October 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Dragonized -- 8 October 2012
- Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- KJK -- 8 October 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Dragonized -- 19 September 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Turnoi -- 9 September 2012
- Re: Teachers Law of the People's Republic of China -- Mark Wheeler -- 8 September 2012