I have noticed that many teaching jobs don’t offer holiday pay in Taiwan. Is this the norm? How do teachers cope with hours loss this way?
Yes, it’s the norm. They save money or don’t take holidays. It’s hard to get holidays anyway unless you can find a substitute.
i get paid chinese new year, national holidays, and any typhoon days. i also get 7 paid sick days a year. I get one month UNPAID which sucks shit. you have to work in a public school to get paid vacation.
I too get paid for the week of chinese new year, all the other national holidays, typhoon days, and I get 1 paid sick day/month. Also, I have 7 paid vacation days per year…not a bad gig.
we rarely have compulsory unpaid holidays.
my director never says a word when we use our sick days every month. she realizes that we need those days to de-compress.
anytime we have meetings (which is rare, thank god), we get to bank those hours and use them towards vacation time.
I’m heading to the U.S. in January for about 15 days and I only had to take 4 unpaid days for the whole trip…makes the return a bit softer on the wallet.
So, is it common finding jobs for NT$60000 a month with national holiday etc pay? where is the best place to look? Hey, is no national holiday and holiday pay the norm in TW? Is it possible to find decent teaching jobs in Taiwan with the above pay? Is it common for Taiwanese to have no national holiday pay etc? Is this the same for Taiwanese people or do they get paid for holidays etc?
Vallillo, I just merged your thread on this topic from “Teaching English in Taiwan” in with the thread you’ve just started on the same topic here. Didn’t you read all the helpful replies to your question after you posted it the first time?
I see that you’re also crossposting questions on pension plans in Taiwan and on living in Japan.
Not only is crossposting against the site rules, it’s also counterproductive. People will be less likely to want to give helpful answers to your questions when it seems that previous people who have tried to help you have been ignored. Indeed, as far back as March of this year someone on this site wrote about you that: “[he] repeatedly requests information by PM without thanks and then posts again and again in the public forums for the same information.”