…The General Union Interac Branch…

OSAKA:
GU Interac Branch - January 20th, 2008 2:00PM
Temmabashi Office
ゼネラルユニオン General Union
530-0043 大阪市北区天満1-6-8 六甲天満ビル 201
530-0043 Osaka-shi Kita-ku Temma 1-6-8 Rokko-Temma Bldg #201
Tel: 06-6352-9619 Fax: 06-6352-9630
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Hi all, Corrector here. More news about Interac and the denial of health Insurance, as well as how people are punished for being sick.
This is EXACTLY why I joined the union in the first place, to fight against injustices like this. If you find these things distasteful, give us a call and join us in the fight against this situation.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080105f1.html

THIS FOREIGN LAND
Assistant language teachers in trying times

By KANAKO TAKAHARA
Staff writer
Last of four parts

In November, Samantha Bouton, an assistant language teacher working at a public elementary school in the rural town of Shibayama, Chiba Prefecture, had a fever of 38.5 degrees and was diagnosed as suffering bronchitis.

Because of her illness, Bouton, a 25-year-old U.S. native from Oregon who has been teaching in Japan’s public schools since 2004, had to take leave for two weeks.

But her employer, Interac, a temp staff dispatch agency and leading provider of ALTs in Japan, told her she had already used up her seven days of annual paid leave — less than the 12 days she is entitled to under labor law — to cover the days she was sick.

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