Is your legal status guaranteed at EF?

It's fairly well known that over the past couple of months the EF HO in shanghai has been contacting all franchise EF schools to check the legal status of the teachers at each of them. Fair enough you might say, that's just good housekeeping. The reason behind it though is that a disgruntled teacher at an EF school was fired and then kicked up a fuss both in china and then in his own country about having been employed on something other than a working visa. By all means check with your dos on this situation if you don't believe me!

The problem i see here is that you're now guilty of doing what you've accused most posters on this board of doing. Posting about issues that they don't fully understand or have no experience of. You claim to have worked for EF for a while so you must know that the majority of EF schools in china are franchises. They operate along vaguely similar lines but in essence they are all separate businesses run by individual investors (some with more than one school). Given that there is no standardized practice or central control on these schools, how can you (an individual who has not worked at every EF school in china) make any guarantee regarding the legal status of a perspective teacher who could end up working in any of the hundreds of EFs around china? YOU CAN'T! the above example proves that!

It's a shame that you seem to have such a low opinion of this board and the people that post on it. Some of us clearly know more than you anticipated!