Melissa Angarita Cardenas was a Sales Rep at SEDA College on Capel Street one ofthe largest English Language Schools in Dublin, Ireland. She challenged heremployer in 2020 and finally won a ruling for payment totalling over €40,000 byIreland’s ACAS, the Workplace Relations Commission or the WRC this month.The total awarded was €44,849. But she went … Read more
We all want and deserve decent working conditions. But the experience of far too many of us is precarious work, a lack of communication from management, and wages that mean we struggle to get a mortgage or start a family. On top of this, far too many of us only receive the statutory minimum when … Read more
An account and tips from a fellow ELT teacher The TEFL Workers’ Union received this account from an online teacher who wanted to share their experience of dealing with a dodgy TEFL school. The issues covered – unclear pay rates, dodgy contracts, confusing and contradictory statements from management – will be all-too-familiar to many of … Read more