Legal advice needed:
I teach at a bilingual colegio in the DR. Every year, this institution liquidates it's employees at the end of June and then re-hires them in mid-August. From what I have been told, this process is not legal due to the fact that they are not waiting the required 90-day period to re-hire the same employees.
In addition to this, the liquidation check is not payed upon "dismissal". Rather, the liquidation checks often come at the end of July or beginning of August, approximately 4-5 weeks after all of the employees contracts have ended. This seems to be the pattern for this institution, as this has happened for the past 3 years, as well as the December bonus being paid around the 23rd of that month as well.
Am I right in assuming that this is not legal? Is there a particular time frame in which the check is supposed to be paid? Is there anything that I can do about this? Is it worth my time going to the Dept of Labor or having an attorney contact the institution?
They have really put a lot of their employees in a financial pinch, going 5-6 weeks without any sort of pay. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I teach at a bilingual colegio in the DR. Every year, this institution liquidates it's employees at the end of June and then re-hires them in mid-August. From what I have been told, this process is not legal due to the fact that they are not waiting the required 90-day period to re-hire the same employees.
In addition to this, the liquidation check is not payed upon "dismissal". Rather, the liquidation checks often come at the end of July or beginning of August, approximately 4-5 weeks after all of the employees contracts have ended. This seems to be the pattern for this institution, as this has happened for the past 3 years, as well as the December bonus being paid around the 23rd of that month as well.
Am I right in assuming that this is not legal? Is there a particular time frame in which the check is supposed to be paid? Is there anything that I can do about this? Is it worth my time going to the Dept of Labor or having an attorney contact the institution?
They have really put a lot of their employees in a financial pinch, going 5-6 weeks without any sort of pay. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.