Bullring
- 2011-02-07
I have read enough bad stuff about this company, and I am sure it's a hot topic for a lot of FTs in a certain city in East China. The question now is, what can we do about this Sophie, and this company?
Surely the laws can't be on their side? What can be done for recourse?
exham
- 2011-02-07
Well yes, you're right Turoni it is a problem, as well as being unacceptable. I just meant it was not as serious as some of the problems which have been highlighted here and elsewhere is all, I am certainly NOT defending them in any way :P
Teacher
- 2011-02-05
Hampson English : Well after being ignored, lied to etc for two weeks I received an email(!!) `you are fired go away` from the woman in Beijing who had offered me the 9000rmb per month in the first place. Please feel free to email her and give her your views at
I returned her email citing the China Labour Laws of one month`s written notice or a month in lieu being the minimum allowed and only if certain things had occured (health, incompetency NOT failure to pay salary) which means HAMPSON owes me around 21000 rmb which is still a lot less than I earned from them in the six weeks I was working there. Guess what? Yep am being ignored by the lying $%%^ again. I will be in Beijing from 10th Feb and it is SOOOO tempting to pay a personal visit to the offices there. I do not really think someone is related to some big pamjam in the china party. I reckon it is another lie to intimidate because of course the china party is the scariest organisation in the world
Teacher
- 2011-01-29
Well the latest update for Hampsons here is if I `refuse to be sensible` - meaning do not grovellingly accept 2300 rmb salary, I will not be able to work at all at Hampson English, who will furthermore put me on the blacklist so I will-never-be-able-to-work-in-China-again. Hey ho worry eats me hourly. My full salary as promised would be useful but I already have another job lined up for after spring festival. I just need my bloody money! I have decided to bite the bullet and get my contract etc translated and activate the Bureau of Foreign Expert angle.
I received a phone call and series of emails yesterday from a european teacher who assured me there must have had been a `mistunderstanding` . I had not been lied to and swindled there was simply a mistake somewhere; and my money would definitely paid at some unspecified point in the future `maybe sometime after spring break`. The witholding of 30% of my salary was a `protocol` he had not heard of but must be for the good because Hampson is a very good firm and you can make a lot of money (for them at least) working for them. It actually sounds worse in a European accent. Never ceases to amaze me how such matters are described as `misunderstandings` by the ones who perpetrate ( or at least benefit from) the situation yet never by the ones who lose out. I think anyone and everyone who has been conned by Hampson English should report them to the Bureau of Foreign experts and make China at least do something about one of the foul scams in this place.