You can’t use one criminal to describe a whole category. We had a G5 and she was and still is family. She has a GC now and lives with her family here in the US. There are very strict rules nowadays and many checks. We have to pay all mandated taxes and a minimum wage of $17/hr and pay for all her living expenses (if she does not live with you).

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Anonymous wrote:World bank and ifc stopped this perk years ago, but I think still grandfathered through existing kids in private schools.

IDB still offers the education remission benefit for expats (see below from website).

“Education Benefit for Dependent Children: By means of the Education Benefit IDB Group provides financial assistance to expatriate staff toward the cost of tuition of their dependent children (between 5 and 25 years old). The Education Benefit will be paid as a reimbursement at the end of the academic year, upon meeting the requirements set by the IDB Group at the rate of 50% of tuition for staff assigned to headquarters. Payment may include a subsistence allowance for room & board, tuition reimbursement and any payment of subsistence (If applicable) will be paid up to reimbursement cap established for the academic year.“

Pretty sure World Bank still does too. It’s an amazing benefit.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/human-resources/education-benefits

The World Bank has not offered education benefits for staff in their HQ offices since 1998.

That is not true. My neighbor's kids are getting free rides. My son's friends did as well.

“Before deporting”

To me, this is no qualms expulsion and go home situation. Ditto for sexual harassment, embezzlement, disregard for the local laws (how many are illegal landlords) and tax all the income before reporting including the free school fees. This is by no means rare and extreme, each of us knows or suspects or has felt a case or two

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Anonymous wrote:I know a World Bank employee who moved abroad and enrolled their kids in American boarding school with nearly all the tuition paid off.

Damn! That's a sweet gig.

My DW and I moved to Singapore, gratefully WB policy pays off nearly all foreign tuition up to high school and a large percentage of college fees, and thus we have enrolled our DCs in separate boarding schools with little to no tuition. We plan to stay in Singapore until our youngest graduates college, in order to pay less than in state tuition for expensive colleges in the US. A great perk indeed!

So your children get private education until graduation and get to attend expensive american universities for half the price?! Must be nice.

But they are making some sacrifices too, particularly with spousal career. And while Singapore is a nice posting, in a few years they could get sent to South Sudan. So while it’s a nice perk for PP, it’s not all gravy.

PP would likely get overcompensated and a larger salary if they were sent to a third world country like South Sudan. Sometimes that figure can double, depending on the country

That’s not how it works. Singapore is more expensive so benefits are more to cover COLA.

If I’m not wrong their own bylaws make it impossible to employ felons, and yet they do.
I’m all for rehabilitative justice but there’s no justification for domestic employees not being paid, not being given own docs and sleeping on the floor, or continued and obvious sexual harassment of colleagues or continues disregard for the laws of the US to whom you pay no taxes and yet where you know you’ll stay forever. It’s high time we close the loopholes

Sadly, there will always be extreme examples. I worked for a U.S.-based non-profit where a high-level executive served time in prison and was ordered to pay significant criminal restitution after a years-long embezzlement scheme was uncovered. He stole millions intended to help the poor.

Classic?

In 2004 and again in 2008, Ms. Kiwanuka signed an employment contract with defendant Anne Margareth Bakilana, pursuant to which Ms. Kiwanuka would travel from Tanzania to the United States to work as a domestic servant for Ms. Bakilana and her husband, defendant Raymond D. Rwehumbiza. Id. ¶¶ 1, 20, 24, 59. Ms. Bakilana and Mr. Rwehumbiza are Tanzanians who come from wealthy and influential families. Id. ¶ 17, 18. At the time of the events in question, Ms. Bakilana was employed in Washington, D.C. as an economist for the World Bank Group. Id. ¶ 13. Ms. Kiwanuka traveled to the United States in 2004 and again in 2009 under a G–5 non-immigrant visa, which was arranged by the defendants. Id. ¶ 12. At the time of her arrival in the United States, Ms. Kiwanuka's English skills were limited. Id. ¶ 14.

When Ms. Kiwanuka first came to the United States in 2004, the defendants lived with their four-month-old son in Rosslyn, Virginia. Id. ¶ 13. In 2005, the defendants moved to Falls Church, Virginia. Id. When the defendants brought Ms. Kiwanuka back to the United States in 2009, they lived with their two sons in Falls Church, Virginia. Id.

Ms. Kiwanuka alleges that the defendants lured her to the United States with promises of reasonable working conditions, educational opportunities, and decent pay. Id. ¶¶ 1, 20, 55. However, Ms. Kiwanuka claims that upon both of her arrivals in the United States, the defendants confiscated her passport, held her in isolation, and used threats of deportation to manipulate her into working long hours as a domestic servant and nanny to their children. Id. ¶¶ 2, 3, 66–68. Believing that if she stopped working for the defendants she would be deported within twenty-four hours, id. ¶ 28, Ms. Kiwanuka worked seven days a week, without breaks to rest or eat, id. ¶¶ 3, 69, 70, and allegedly endured Ms. Bakilana's regular verbal and psychological abuse, id. ¶¶ 35, 36.

In July 2009, the FBI launched an investigation into defendants' employment and exploitation of Ms. Kiwanuka in response to a tip of a possible human trafficking situation. Id. ¶ 4. FBI officers provided Ms. Kiwanuka with a recording device, which she used to record her conversations with Ms. Bakilana. Id. The recorded conversations captured Ms. Bakilana warning Ms. Kiwanuka that she would be immediately escorted out of the country by the FBI if she stopped working for the defendants. Id. Ex. B (“Bakilana Statement”), ¶ 14.

When FBI agents and a federal prosecutor questioned Ms. Bakilana, she willfully and knowingly made false statements about Ms. Kiwanuka's pay and the threats of deportation she used to control Ms. Kiwanuka. Compl. ¶¶ 5, 6. Ms. Bakilana subsequently pled guilty to two counts of knowingly and willfully making materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations in a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive branch of the United States government, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2). See Compl. Ex. A (“Plea Agreement”), at 1. In the statement of stipulated facts that Ms.

Instead the culprit a she kept her job tax and education benefits and kept getting promoted.

and today try to Google it you can’t find it

Not fair for the victim! Another young girl

On March 29, 2010, Anne Margreth Bakilana, who had signed a written Plea Agreement, pled guilty to a two-count Criminal Information charging her with knowingly and willfully making two materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations in a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive branch of the government of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2). The maximum penalties for each such offense are a maximum term of five years imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, full restitution to any victims, a special assessment, and three years of supervised release.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what Trump's former CFO just got in trouble for. It isn't really a thing unless companies are really shady. Though with the bonuses some people in this town get, it's like tuition is paid.

Stop with these clueless misinformed posts. These are international organizations that have their own set of applicable laws and tax provisions. Nothing similar to Trump criminal enterprises. You really think WB, IDB, IMF, etc and their employees would have gotten away with breaking the law without consequence? Get a grip on reality!

Erm yes, how about the convicted human trafficker you by your own bylaws were meant to fire but she is still there and promoted?
Or the sexual harasser that it took years to demote (vaguely)?
Or the horrendous lying “landlord” people of imf selling dangerous and overpriced rentals?

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Anonymous wrote:I know a World Bank employee who moved abroad and enrolled their kids in American boarding school with nearly all the tuition paid off.

Damn! That's a sweet gig.

My DW and I moved to Singapore, gratefully WB policy pays off nearly all foreign tuition up to high school and a large percentage of college fees, and thus we have enrolled our DCs in separate boarding schools with little to no tuition. We plan to stay in Singapore until our youngest graduates college, in order to pay less than in state tuition for expensive colleges in the US. A great perk indeed!

So your children get private education until graduation and get to attend expensive american universities for half the price?! Must be nice.

But they are making some sacrifices too, particularly with spousal career. And while Singapore is a nice posting, in a few years they could get sent to South Sudan. So while it’s a nice perk for PP, it’s not all gravy.

PP would likely get overcompensated and a larger salary if they were sent to a third world country like South Sudan. Sometimes that figure can double, depending on the country

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Anonymous wrote:I know a World Bank employee who moved abroad and enrolled their kids in American boarding school with nearly all the tuition paid off.

Damn! That's a sweet gig.

My DW and I moved to Singapore, gratefully WB policy pays off nearly all foreign tuition up to high school and a large percentage of college fees, and thus we have enrolled our DCs in separate boarding schools with little to no tuition. We plan to stay in Singapore until our youngest graduates college, in order to pay less than in state tuition for expensive colleges in the US. A great perk indeed!

So your children get private education until graduation and get to attend expensive american universities for half the price?! Must be nice.

But they are making some sacrifices too, particularly with spousal career. And while Singapore is a nice posting, in a few years they could get sent to South Sudan. So while it’s a nice perk for PP, it’s not all gravy.