EFBA reviews

Inappropriate expectations from the direction. Employees spending a lot energy fighting back or protecting themselves from a pushy, aggressive and disrespectful management while trying to do properly their job. A huge gap between the values the organization pretend to promote and the actual management practices of the direction. A lack of checks and balances, and basic safeguards to avoid management abuses, as well as to guarantee the transparency needed to administrate properly the organization. An important turn-over rate. A lot of frustrations for employees forced to quit, and for those staying. Low salaries.

The direction lacks empathy and basic human decency. Management is used as a tool to harass and pressure the full-time employees until they can’t take it no longer or are burned out. As a result, there is a huge turn over among the permanent employees which, in turn, disorganized and put at risk the organization. The direction do a good job at hiding how poorly things are runned and led to the community of parents and teachers, and presents itself as a community and social service and advocate when clearly it isn’t. As a permanent employee, I saw my colleagues harassed and was asked to put pressure even on volunteers.