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[nightsintodreams]

OK, so a friend of mine (no really, a friend) believes that getting a second job or part time work/ private lessons is against the conditions of his cotract with his company.

I told him that it's a load of bull and a company can't stop him from doing part time work, especially considering you're not even technically a full time worker (they don't even pay his shakaihokken).

His response was that it doesn't matter if it's legal or not, if they find out they'll just probably not renew his contract.

So I said that they won't find out, and he said that they will because they file his taxes.

Can't you file taxes separately from your company? Can anyone comment on this situation.

Thanks

[mitsui]

You are right. This is not Korea where people could get in trouble.

Private classes are the way to go as they aren't taxed.

They could discourage people from taking a second job but that is all.
I have seen that happen, at least for the first 6 months.
But that was as a full-time university teacher.

That place doesn't sound good.
If he isn't even full-time getting a second job is reasonable.

My wife works part-time and has to take care of her taxes.

[Shimokitazawa]

[mitsui]

It is up to the teacher, if you want to.
You must go to city hall and do it yourself.
I haven't done this, but if I am full-time in April I will have to pay for 2014.

Now I pay for health insurance through the city hall too.

[Shimokitazawa]

[rtm]

[Shimokitazawa]

Interesting, now that it has been mentioned, I, too, am curious of the legality of such a contract clause.

Can an employer legally be entitled to stop an employee from, in our cases, teaching part-time at another school?

Even the old NOVA contracts forbid people from socializing with students outside of the language center, but this was later deemed to be an illegal contract clause.

Just because a company puts something in a contract does not mean that it's legal and enforceable.

These dirty eikaiwa companies will do all kinds of underhanded things if they can get away with it.

[Harp]

I think clauses like this are more eikaiwas trying to protect themselves. Most schools have multiple locations and are open 6 or 7 days a week, so schedule changes are not exactly uncommon - the eikaiwa would have a problem if they said to a teacher 'just to let you know your Sunday & Tuesday days off are changing to Sunday & Wednesday next month as we need you at X school' and the teacher replies 'sorry, I have another job on Tuesdays, I can't change'.

So the eikaiwa adds the clause to the contract to preempt this - whether it's illegal or not, well, as with lots of things if the eikaiwa can prove the teacher is materially harming the school and breaking the terms of their contract they'd probably have a case. Proving the harm would be difficult and time consuming, guess it depends how far the school wanted to take it.

[Harp]

On income taxes, if you have income from more than one source and both/all sources withhold tax then you would have to do a personal tax return in February/March each year called a kakutei shinkoku.

There are 2 rates of income tax, your main employer should deduct at a rate called 'kou', which is sort of like the normal rate. A secondary employer should deduct at a rate called 'otsu', which is higher than the kou rate. When you submit you personal tax return all these are combined and you get the tax you should have paid for the year, so you may get some back or have more to pay.

If you do cash-in-hand private lessons then technically you should declare these and do a personal tax return as above, but I've heard that some people don't...

[rxk22]

[kzjohn]

[kzjohn]

[mitsui]

My taxes are calculated according to my 2013 income.
So since I am just part-time starting this year the taxes are a lot.

I just have to pay to my city hall.
Next year my taxes should be less as my income will be less.