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[Glenski]

Iwantmyrightsnow,

Apologies for my earlier post. I was stunned to see that my original source (an abridged form of the Labour Standards Law) was slightly different from the full length version, even though the abridged one refers to the longer one!!

The second point was also a typo, I'm afraid. "Excluded" is indeed the correct word. Thanks for pointing these out.

[Iwantmyrightsnow]

[homersimpson]

Is this school in Hiroshima Prefecture? There is a small school there (forgot the name) that advertises from time-to-time detailing a 6-day work-week. A six-day schedule in not the norm in Japan. The only people I know who work six days a week are Japanese. (This of course does not include those who do privates, school clubs, etc.) There is absolutely no reason to work six days a week for 250,000 yen unless you elect to. Unless you've got the energy of a hummingbird you're going to get burnt out in about six months, let alone the two years the contract requires.

[shmooj]

Not if, as the OP states, the job still involves 40 hours. That is exactly what I had for four years in Japan. I'm not exactly hummingbird material...

[homersimpson]

Yeah I didn't really mean from the total number of hours necessarily. I think it's more of a drain mentally. Waking up (virtually) every day and thinking, "I gotta go to work." Aside from that, with just one day off a week it allows for little time for travel, socializing, and just relaxing. Even spread over six days, it still averages out to 6+ hours a day at work, not including commuting time (if there is any). I love my job now, but if asked to work six days a week, they'd have to offer some more of an incentive.

[shmooj]