Teachers at English language school in Dublin made redundant after refusing to accept lower-pay contracts | Irish Independent
by SeanB2003
Teachers at English language school in Dublin made redundant after refusing to accept lower-pay contracts | Irish Independent
by SeanB2003
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>If they did not do so, they would be made redundant and “replaced”. Some of the teachers had been working at the school for up to seven years and were earning €20 an hour.
>Those who did not agree to the lower rate of €16.50 an hour were officially made redundant on Tuesday this week.
>MD Shafikul Islam, who was appointed as director of the school last November, has claimed that this was necessary in order to “address liabilities of the company”.
>Accounts filed for Academic Bridge show the business had a turnover of €2.1m last year. Wages, salaries and director remuneration amounted to €1.1m.
My guess is they are going to implement AI teachers in the near future so they are pushing out people by making the pay unattractive. It’s entirely unjust to force a paycut on people like this, especially when the company and director are making large profits and the people working there have been there for years.
A lot of these English language schools are dodgy as fuck. My mother used to take in students and holy shit the stories she had were mad
English language schools are a vehicle to import cheap labour for hospitality and the like to the country. Very shady practices overall but are intrinsic to how the jobs market has been kept going all these years.
Fake redundancies should get the school in trouble with the employment courts.
Doesn’t sound legal? They’d have to make the teachers roles actually ‘redundant’ for it to be considered a redundancy. They can’t just hire new people to fill the same roles, as the role would therefore not be considered redundant.
I was in the same situation, I was let go with one week pay after 3 years and a half of service because the company couldn’t afford to pay me my salary €20 but they employ 4 cheap staff on minimum rate with no experience at all.
The pay and conditions for most of those English language teaching jobs are terrible globally. There’s a continuous conveyor belt of various TEFL courses that are taken up mostly by graduates who want to do a just bit of travelling — you end up paying large amounts of money to do a highly compressed course that seems far too short to be effective, then you’re off teaching somewhere for a few months being paid way less than a decent wage, then most go home and never use it again.
Then at home there seems so be a whole industry built up around it just churning though courses — both aimed at language student and teachers.
Regulations around them still could be much higher.
These schools are an immigration racket. Close them all down.
They could probably fire them based on the performance of their students, many don’t attend class and are only paying so they can make money before they go home. The teaching standards are pretty bad across the board.
What kind of a country pays a lot of politicians between 100 and 200k a year with all their expenses and everything fucking else, but won’t pay teachers a living wage. The fucking world is backwards.
Anyone know which school this is? I’m not a Indo subscriber
Where are they going to get the replacement teachers willing to work for a pittance? Oh I get it!
English language schools make serious money in Dublin. Students arrive on tourist visa and must pay for a course before their student status is confirmed.
They are usually in a rush to do so because they can’t work(pay for rent) until their student status is confirmed.
There is no incentive for the schools to provide a decent service as the visa status is only confirmed after they have paid for the course.
Canada for example, confirms student status independently before the course has been paid for, which forces schools to compete more.
Irish govt are aware of this but as with so much else, don’t care.
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