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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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The 2 main plans are called shakai hoken and kokumin kenko hoken.
The former is a combination of health insurance and pension. The latter is only health insurance (there is a separate pension).
If you have had neither of these before you get kokumin, you have to make backpayments. If you have had neither of these before you get shakai hoken, you (probably) don't have to make backpayments.
Backpayments can be as much as up to 2 years' worth. |
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Mr_Monkey
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
Posts: 661
Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu
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| Generally speaking, you should be doing a maximum of 25 hours teaching time (depending how long your classes are). |
Why? How did you arrive at this rule of thumb?
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| If you are not teaching 25 hours, you are expected to make up that time with extra non-teaching duties. |
I prefer to call them non-classroom hours, because pretty much most of those other duties do relate to teaching.
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| Basically, you'll be working a 40 hour week, paid for 29.5, but you will still be earning nearly twice as much as your manager, who works a 50+ hour week, often 6 days a week and gets constant grief from HO. |
Twice as much? Hardly. Twice as much per total time period, maybe, but you're going to have to prove that, too. Are you saying managers get the same low pay as teachers? |
It sounds very much like Angelfish is working/has worked for GEOS. I'd add that what he says is mirrored in my experience with them - the managers do incredibly long hours and put up with crap from the regional manager on a daily basis, often more if the school isn't performing to the unrealistic targets head office set.
Managers' basic salaries are crap - I remember being shocked at how little my manager earned, but they can make a lot of extra money if the school achieves its monthly sales targets - they can earn more than the teacher that way, but this is often unobtainable if the school is not in a good location. |
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