Recourse in pay problem with employer

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eflnowNew member29 January 2013 04:07:52

Hi -

Can some-one help me? Is there a Labor Board I can go to, or what? My employer, a language school, keeps promising to pay me my salary, but there is always a different excuse. This has gone on for a month. I am trying to leave the country, and they know it. I think they are holding out until I leave, so they can just keep my money. (I have a work visa.)

HarmonieViP29 January 2013 11:21:54

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Hello eflnow and welcome to Expat.com!

Hope that you'll soon be enlightened.

Harmonie.

stumpyLaos Expert01 February 2013 02:42:49

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Perhaps try the education department to see if they know how to assist you

wontoncrueltyContributor18 February 2013 06:10:54

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Threaten to go to the Ministry of Labor. Threats should probably be enough. Bring someone who can translate for you - even if they speak English. That'll show them that you have the resources to defend yourself against them.

treyMember18 February 2013 08:17:15

Haha, sorry to laugh but I guess you are learning too that these Mongolians are the biggest money cheats I've ever seen anywhere. I would try threatening Labor board but they know that the govt here is ineffective at best. Good luck.

eflnowNew member02 March 2013 05:08:29

Thanks for the ideas. I had already gone to the U. S. Embassy. They said all they could do was call and "ask" my employer to pay.

when I told my employer I would going to the Labor Board, it got no reaction. ( It turns out the Labor Board is only for government employees, and although my employer has a contract with the Ministry of Ed and farmed me out to public schools and used me with training teachers for the the Ministry, I was technically an employee only of the private firm.)

When I informed them I would go to the police, I got no response from my employer. The police said it was a civil case: that I should go to the court. So I did, but I had to hire a lawyer (and that's not cheap). So now my lawyer has got all the information, and I have handed it over entirely to him.