Hello
I will begin my job in Bali shortly and my contract allows me to leave at any time provided I give 30 days notice. My contract states I must pay back part of the fee they laid out for the working visa, with the amount depending on how much I have left of the contract when I leave. I guess that made sense to me and I did not think much of it. Just before however, I was reading some responses to a posting in another forum where a person listed some conditions of her working contract. She mentioned this condition as well and someone noted that this was a bit of a shady practice -- do not know if he meant it was not allowed or if he just personally thought it was a bad thing to do. Are Indonesian employers permitted to make you pay back the money? Also, this same poster noted that employers here are supposed to pay for a return flight home at the completion of a contract -- my contract does not provide for this either. I was just curious if this person was correct in his assertions? If so, it gives me some reservations about where I will be working. Not that these two things specifically are a big deal to me but it would bother me if I felt I was working for an employer that was not offering proper contracts.
I will begin my job in Bali shortly and my contract allows me to leave at any time provided I give 30 days notice. My contract states I must pay back part of the fee they laid out for the working visa, with the amount depending on how much I have left of the contract when I leave. I guess that made sense to me and I did not think much of it. Just before however, I was reading some responses to a posting in another forum where a person listed some conditions of her working contract. She mentioned this condition as well and someone noted that this was a bit of a shady practice -- do not know if he meant it was not allowed or if he just personally thought it was a bad thing to do. Are Indonesian employers permitted to make you pay back the money? Also, this same poster noted that employers here are supposed to pay for a return flight home at the completion of a contract -- my contract does not provide for this either. I was just curious if this person was correct in his assertions? If so, it gives me some reservations about where I will be working. Not that these two things specifically are a big deal to me but it would bother me if I felt I was working for an employer that was not offering proper contracts.
