Let's Japan.org Debunking Eikaiwa and Ramblings in Japan

By then maybe Monkey Chopsticks will think the staff & teachers will have forgotten about being paid!..In the meantime I think those of you calling in sick or taking time off are doing the right thing..I know you must be feeling that you are letting your students down..but I have to agree with some other posts and blogs that state by going to work for free teachers are helping MC work off some of the debt he will have lumped on him as attempts to work it off from the prison laundry in the Osaka detention house. At the very least at present the company should be insuring that teachers have some travel money and/or meal money on their scheduled work days. Why should anyone have to dip into their own finances/credit card accounts or borrow money from friends and family when a company has broken the country's labor laws (again) by not paying its employees.

..this means that we've been working completely for FREE for the last month and a half.

This can't be true. How could this legally happen to anyone who is working in the country legally?

Unless... all of us are employed under Nova illegally... Now that wouldn't surprise me a bit. Ugh. The hits just keep on comin'.

When Sahashi and co..wrote up this latest fax I'm sure the date chosen was just the result of a dart being thrown at the calendar.
BTW..a couple of things I'd like to hear more about..does anyone know if every branch in Nara-ken is winding up tomorrow? Or is it just Nara City? Cheers..have a good weekend all..no matter how bad things are going for you don't forget you're in Japan..get out and have a good time!

I said unaaid wages not unemplyment money

The article doesn't say 100 people anywhere that I can see (only looked in the first paragraph). It has 100 written in pen above the first paragraph (second photo). Not exactly an official addition.

I understand a lot of this is poorly worded. I did not write this myself, I was just copying the form that Hello Work gave me word for word. I made some typos myself, but all in all it's just a typed up version of the papers I received from hello work. Hence, not my error, but just part of why this thing is so hard to understand... it's poorly worded from the start.

Do you really expect people to work for free you moron? Just because your so thick that you will work for months with no pay, don't expect other people to, now F**k off and get a life!

On Harrowe'en? Hahahahaha!

Will Sahashi dress up as the ghost of Usagi-chan? And hand the paycheques out of
Jack-O-Lanterns?

That stinks like butt pellets.

Anyone believe THIS news?

I'm starting to BE-LEAVE!!!! SEE YOU, ALL!!!!

According to the leader of the General Union we can eventually get 80% of what we're owed (albeit in 4-6 months time from now).

But as with much of the semi-speculative info going around about Nova's collapse, contradictions are abundant.
Doesn't it seem a little late for us to start receiving news about how the 80% payment of unpaid wages will not happen? Why this sudden bit of new information all of a sudden? Surely one of us 5000 or so employees has already properly checked with some authoritative organization.

Also, the only reason I can think that Monkeybridge Saruhashi would want us to think that we can never collect unpaid wages is to stop us from quitting and have us keep hoping that the paychecks will come (and have us believe they won't come if we leave). But this argument is also a little flawed in that it assumes that we won't realize he'd still be breaking the law by not paying those that have left.

While it totally sucks that 90% of the Nova teachers and japanese staff have to deal with the present situation ...

I am laughing my ass off that the other 10% (primarily TI's, BT's, AAM's and RAAM's) will all soon be out of jobs. That's what you get for rubbing your noses in Saru's ass you bunch of fuckwits. I am also taking extreme joy in the knowledge that MICHAEL CARR (RAAM Yokohama), the biggest jerk of them all, will soon have no throne to sit in any longer.

Wait, did I say soon ...? No, correct that, since the monkeys flown the tree with no banannas I guess his throne is already gone.

The point is; we (GAIJINZ) are being used! Working for peanuts! While the Ring-Master is off to The Virgin Islands, having champagne for breakfast with his offshore bankers on his yacht and surrounded by beautiful girls in G-string bikinis!

Hey guys
Just to clarify. If Nova continues to struggle on, even with the closure of many schools, they don't HAVE to file for bankruptcy, (and judging by monkeybridge's past deceits, I'd say he'd take this path just to piss everyone off!) this being the case you can only get the unemployment payment
1. If you are fired
2. If you quit AFTER 2 months of non-payment of your wages.
This date is calculated 2 calandar months after PAY DAY so our pay is now only 5 days late, that means we have to wait until DECEMBER 15th being unpaid by Nova, to quit and have it be a legitiment reason to qualify us for the unemployment payment.
I went to Hello work last month and had a very reliable translater from the internaitonal centre asking my very specific questions and getting me very accurate info.
Just a point to add, on the 25th (or is their payday the 26th?) the Japanese staff will all qualify for the unemployment allowance if they quit. Maybe some of the J-staff aren't aware of this (and probably wont believe a gaijin anyway) but you could pass the info on to them and tell them to look into it. J-Staff leaving would certainly speed up this shut down process!!!

Re: "Toppatsus don't help anyone but the instructor..."
Dear sir:
You only let yourself down when you use language like that. Perhaps if you were more confident in your position, you wouldn't need the profanity.