Poor Management and treatment of staff - Anonymous employee English 1 Employee Review

Every centre is different- some will work an hour less a day but still get paid more Weekend and evening work- working the end of the metro line didn’t help this at all. May be better to see attractions on your day off but May colleagues weekends are staggered. Culture- all about sales- unhappy teachers seen easier to replace with fresh foreigners rather than entice them to stay Pay- terrible compared to many schools. Even the advertised amount is rarely shown due to a ridiculous (and poorly explained) tax system- this changed halfway though my time there. Plus you are constantly paying a loan back you are told you can’t get by without Summer and winter course- work twice as many hours for only a 300rmb weekly bonus (roughly £30) Sick leave- you need a hospital note to get 60% of your wage back- if you don’t then you lose a day’s wage. Annual leave- only 10 days and then only very little for chinese public holidays/ Christmas. Management- so badly organised at my centre. Management didn’t understand simple things like exit procedure and even had one of our teachers classified two ‘bands’ lower than they should have (a serious pay difference!) We had serious issues with racial and sexual bias. These issues were addressed in a team meeting but it felt like they were simply squashed and brushed under the carpet! Very little appeared to change as sales were more important to the centre than inclusion.