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From Magic City Morning Star R.P. BenDedek
For the last three months, a Taiwan-Canadian venture known as EET (Easy English Training), has been in operation in Baotou Inner Mongolia in China. This venture which ostensibly provides English tutoring for Chinese Students, is currently in negotiations with Canadian organisations in contact with the Canadian Government or Canadian hospitals, to provide young Nursing trainees gathered from the general population in Baotou. EET is currently attempting to commence their training school for nurses, with the intention of providing them with basic English and Medical training, sufficient to be accepted into Canadian Nursing Schools. The two principals of the venture, Mr. David Gao (Gao Jiawei) of Taiwan, and Sabrina Cui/Chui (Cui Lirong) of Canada, are currently in a dispute with an Australian Staff Member in the Students English Training Center, who has claimed that low pay, excessive extra working hours without pay, canceled days off without pay, and other emotional and psychological mistreatment of staff has resulted in high turnover of staff. The Australian Staff member, who at the time of his hasty withdrawal from the EET company, was the longest serving member of staff, has publicly stated that it is a shameful thing for China, when Chinese staff who cannot bear working for their Chinese bosses, remain employed for a lesser period of time than a foreigner. He does however state that since Chinese staff are paid only 800 rmb per month for around 50 hours work per week, that it is not surprising that staff will not stay with the company. The Australian Staff Member says that he was not hired to work in the capacity of a teacher, but as an administrator of the school, and that he was specifically hired to 'promote' the school and 'look after' the foreign teachers. He claims that from his first working day, June 26th [5 days prior to the commencement of his contract], to the day he 'walked out', September 27th, he was, despite constant claims that foreign teachers were 'on the way', the only foreigner employed by the organisation, and that he was required to teach English to students until such times as that he could be relieved of such duties. This quotation from his lengthy letter to EET executives, provides some insight into the working conditions within the company.
If this is how 'Staff' are treated and financially mistreated, one can only wonder at the fate of those involved in the Nursing School once it is in operation. Furthermore, one must wonder at the quality of teaching services provided by a school that cannot hang on to it's staff for longer than a couple of months. "The most embarrassing thing about this episode" said the Australian Staff Member, "is that the two 'Foreign' principals of the school are in fact Ethnic Han Chinese, and that Miss [Doctor] Sabrina Cui is actually a Baotou native who switched nationalities." He is also quoted as saying:
R.P. BenDedek Legal Outcome Feb 2011 Latest updates: Dec 11, 2010 May 12, 2010 Behind the Shanghai Expo. A copy of my letter of complaint to David Gao EET Shanghai. (He never replies.) Relevant Articles
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