|
Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!"
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
matador
Joined: 07 Mar 2003
Posts: 281
|
 Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 11:46 am Post subject: Health Insurance and Pension for Full Timers?? |
 |
|
| If you work full time as a teacher, must your employer provide you with/and contribute to, these things? Is it a legal requirement in Japan? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Celeste
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Posts: 814
Location: Fukuoka City, Japan
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Posts: 4672
Location: Western Japan
|
| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: Re: Health Insurance and Pension for Full Timers?? |
|
|
| matador wrote: |
| If you work full time as a teacher, must your employer provide you with/and contribute to, these things? Is it a legal requirement in Japan? |
This is a matter of great debate in Japan at the moment and the unions are having a great deal of trouble with many of the big companies over this issue.
The answer is yes, every person working full time and is over the age of 20, Japanese or foreigner is required to have some kind of health insurance and in most cases, national pension as well. Depending on the plan you are on, the employer will pay 50% of the premium and the employee the other fifty percent. You must also be working full time for one employer. Part timers are not required to be covered under health insurance by their employers.
Where it gets sticky is what is considered to be full time? The legal definition is something like 2/3 of a 40 hour work week or 27 hours a week. JET teachers are public servants and are enrolled automatically and most private and public university teachers are enrolled under their school plans.
If you are a foreign teacher working in a language school, the school will count only your contact teaching hours or say 26 hours a week, not your work hours and classify you as part time, though you work forty hours a week.
So yes, you are supposed to be covered under company health insurance, your employer chooses not to enrol you because it saves him money, and no one punishes him for not enrolling you. If you demand to be enrolled in the national health plan, by law he can not refuse to enroll you. Many employers choose not to tell you that this is an option though and refer you to other plans or 'forget' to tell you what your rights are.
There are quite a few archived threads on this topic already. The general union has a lot of info as well on its webpage.
http://www.generalunion.org |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling.
Contact Dave's ESL Cafe
Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
