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Inflames
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BoEs have realized that they can, in many cases, a better end product by employing people directly. Osaka city ditched all of their outsourced ALTs in 2013.
Not surprised at all to hear that Interac refused transfers - teachers are locally employed by Interac branches, and branches with rural placements don't want to lose teachers to urban areas. I had a friend in Tottori who wanted to transfer to Chiba - Interac said no, so he simply took some time off work and had an interview with Interac in Chiba and got hired there.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Interac's latest ripoff - shakai hoken and subsidiaries. As of next year, a company with more than 500 employees must enroll people working more than 20 hours a week in shakai hoken if their employment is expected to last more than a year (note: the phrasing means some bs one month break doesn't count), and there are similar changes in 2018 to make people seishain. Interac is trying to set up subsidiaries to get around the 500 employee rule here. |
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Sydney
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Location: In a classroom near you
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Bottom line is….do everything in your power to make sure you never work for Interac. |
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marley'sghost
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Inflames wrote: |
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Interac's latest ripoff - shakai hoken and subsidiaries. As of next year, a company with more than 500 employees must enroll people working more than 20 hours a week in shakai hoken if their employment is expected to last more than a year (note: the phrasing means some bs one month break doesn't count), and there are similar changes in 2018 to make people seishain. Interac is trying to set up subsidiaries to get around the 500 employee rule here. |
So that's what that was about. I was thinking maybe the new owners were splitting up the company to sell bits of it off here and there.
This is an example of the real service a dispatch co. provides the BOE. They jump through these loopholes so the schools don't have to. |
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weigookin74
Joined: 30 Mar 2010
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The nastiness as anyone would call it - counterproductive shouting and screaming and carrying on by trainers who should know better - has been reported by several posters, most recently kah5217. What would you call that at least, NNG?
And it plainly isn't business sense to make survival impossible for workers. I believe the technical term is "cutting one's own grandmother's throat". Last I heard NHI and local tax payments were finally being linked to visa renewal, good on the one hand but bad if an increasing number of AETs really are only getting 200K a month at most now.
In case anyone isn't quite sure about the sums involved, here's a quick example breakdown of monthly outgoings:
50K modest rent
40K subsistence foodstuffs
20K commuting costs (this often isn't paid)
20K NHI (after first year where it's only 1 or 2K)
20K local taxes (again, only after a year or two)
10K utilities (if pretty frugal)
10K miscellaneous expenses (say a new item of clothes each month)
That's potentially 170K already per month, which may be more than one actually receives if the pay is pro-rated. Factor in the lower-or-zero pay-for-a-month-or-two deal (especially after the summer vacation) and the average AET will be really struggling, certainly at times if not constantly, unless they have savings to subsidize the venture or do privates in the evenings or something.
I don't think 150K would be possible, unless (and that's a very big unless!) one was content to eat only one packet of cheap instant ramen every. single. day., and never ever go out socializing. One wouldn't even be able to afford Japanese study materials (the lifeblood of many a stay-at-home scrooge) on such a pittance. I think one would have an absolutely miserable existence, and be in serious danger of going completely bonkers. Even 'wage slave' doesn't cover it. |
So, why do you folks do it? Why not go to the local office of education and complain about it? Tell them you all need at least 300,000 a month to live on and that the local education baords could hire the teachers directly themselves, pay this amount, and get better quality and more experienced teachers at the same time? It would also be cheaper than a JET teacher. Don't complain about it on this board, go to the local offices and contact the national education ministry to complain and do it often. Then, quit en mass and either take a job that pays better or move onto another country that does. You guys like bending over and taking it? I'd do an ALT for a eyar if I wanted to go to Japan quickly and I already had money saved up. But, I'd certaintly jump ship after that and prob give them the finger too. Though if some chap started screaming at me the way some of you described, he'd better have the muscles to back it up if he desn't want to get punched in the face for it. Seriously, some of you folks, really? |
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