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Shortchanged by former employer

Posted by: rashidas
Date: 2/20/2005 10:17:15 AM

Last month I started teaching part-time at a local private college. After less than 2 weeks of teaching I was let go because some (but not all) of my students complained that they could not follow me and I was not responsive enough to their questions. I did not contest my dissmissal and I offered to teach another class sometime in the future. I was supposed to have been paid $20 for each contact hour of teaching - a total of 14 hours since I started plus one hour of orientation. This salary did not include any preparation time (test writing, scoring test, student counseling etc.) which equalled the actual time I spent teaching. Assuming that I had left on a positive note I waited for my pay check. It came in the mail and it was for only 10 hours! How can I get the extra 5 hours ($100) that I am due?

P.S. On the second week of teaching I left my 4 hour night and 2 hour afternoon class one hour early since I did not have much material to teach that week.

P.P.S. The employment contract I signed when I began teaching emphasized "employment at will" and only supported the employer's interests.

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