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jkozera
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 Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:42 pm Post subject: Just got offered a job at NOVA.. |
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| and well, that is a scary contract! If there are any NOVA vets out there that would share some recent experiences? everything I can find was during or before their big fall in 08. Two major factors I did not like about the contract was how a teacher is payed, basically you gotta work your butt off to earn the minimum also it said that you can't work for a competitor for at least a year after leaving NOVA without their written consent, is that common?? |
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rxk22
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| The noncompete? Those are totally unenforceable. Noncompetes come with money. They pau you not to work. That is garbage and I wouldn't sign it. Or I'd sign it anyway and ignore like EVERYONE EVER has. |
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jkozera
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I figured people ignored those but I was shocked they had that there and was wondering how they would like enforce that? I don't have to tell them I decided to work for another eikaiwa |
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marley'sghost
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I figured people ignored those but I was shocked they had that there and was wondering how they would like enforce that? I don't have to tell them I decided to work for another eikaiwa |
Never heard of an Eikaiwa trying to enforce it. Just would not be worth the time and money. Now if you quit and before quitting made a deal with your students to teach them privately, or took them with you to your new job, they might sic a lawyer on you or otherwise make your life difficult. |
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Inflames
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Is it Nova (as in the company) or a franchise (someone else operating a Nova school)?
Noncompetes are really, really unenforceable here in Japan. When I worked at Nova the contract had a few illegal clauses in it, including ones that they had lost in court about.
One day, when talking with a friend (who had been at Nova since the early 90s), he told me two things - the first is that, at any place called Nova, stuff always rolled downhill. The second was that it was that the sad part was that they would only admit they were wrong after someone called in a lawyer, and not change the contract conditions about it. |
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fat_chris
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:59 am Post subject: |
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"no va" means "no go" in Spanish.
Please pardon my one and a half yen.
Warm regards,
fat_chris |
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Miura Anjin
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I worked for Nova in the last few years and didn't have that kind of clause in my contracts, so it might be new or specific to certain operating companies using the Nova name. |
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ssjup81
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: Just got offered a job at NOVA.. |
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| jkozera wrote: |
| and well, that is a scary contract! If there are any NOVA vets out there that would share some recent experiences? everything I can find was during or before their big fall in 08. Two major factors I did not like about the contract was how a teacher is payed, basically you gotta work your butt off to earn the minimum also it said that you can't work for a competitor for at least a year after leaving NOVA without their written consent, is that common?? |
I'm leaving the eikaiwa I'm currently with. I finish up at the end of March and hopefully do finally find a job in Tokyo. I have the same kind of clause about not working for a year, or something like that, if I want to collect my contract completion bonus, but it's more extreme. I am not allowed to work in any prefecture or city that has one of its schools. Still curious how they enforce it. |
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jkozera
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| anyone know about the average pay with them? other companies seem to pay more with less work like it feels like you need 40 classes a week to make bare min |
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Miura Anjin
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| anyone know about the average pay with them? other companies seem to pay more with less work like it feels like you need 40 classes a week to make bare min |
I don't know about average pay but the way they work salary out is based on the number of classes you do, with the most common contracts being 37 and 40 classes per week (I believe). That gets your basic pay, but there's a monthly "regularity" payment for not being late or taking unpaid holidays and a monthly "shift allowance", which varies according to whether you agree to be sent to cover in another branch at short notice or similar things (there are three options when you sign the contract). |
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