Don't Let This Be Your Story: The Evidence Window Is Closing.

[00:00:00]A teacher came to me last year in June.

[00:00:02]It was a lovely case, clear non-renewal, five years at the school.

[00:00:07]He was owed five months salary, but he got nothing, and here's why.

[00:00:12]This teacher did everything a smart person would do, or at least they thought what a smart person would do.

[00:00:18]Right after Chinese New Year, the school pulled him aside and said next year's contract wasn't guaranteed.

[00:00:23]No details, no written notice, [music] just a conversation in the principal's office. The teacher thought, "Okay, I'll wait and see. Maybe things will change."

[00:00:33]>> [music] >> So April came, May came, June came, nothing in writing.

[00:00:39]>> [music] >> The teacher started casually job hunting, you know, just in case, but still waiting for something official.

[00:00:46]Another month passed, and the school finally confirmed [music] at the last month that they were not renewing him.

[00:00:54]But by now, the school's think [music] talk was already locked out of the school email, had key messages deleted.

[00:01:02]The verbal conversation from March? No record of it whatsoever. [music] So the teacher came to me in June and said, "Well, I know I'm owed severance."

[00:01:12][music] And technically, they were right, but the school's position, the teacher chose to leave. So we never terminated anything. [music] And the teacher had almost nothing to prove otherwise. [music] So we tried, we worked with what we had, but I'm going to be honest with you. What we recovered was only half what he deserved, because the evidence window had closed. [music] Five months salary, half of it gone, poof, just like that.

[00:01:40]Not because the law wasn't on his side.

[00:01:43]It was because he waited too long. I don't want this to be your story.

[00:01:48]If your school has said anything [music] to you, anything at all, about next year not being certain, talk to me right now.

[00:01:55]Not next month, not when you know for sure, right now. The evidence you need is disappearing [music] while you wait.