Hi all, Corrector here.
Recently I have recieved some questions about rights of women in the workplace, specifically rights concerning pregnancy. Hopefully, this information can act as a starting point for anyone who has similar questions.
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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 timesBy KANAKO TAKAHARA
Staff writer
Last of four partsIn 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.
Interac Health Insurance MIS-information and The Birth of the Corrector:
Preface
There are times in one’s life when, confronted with gross misrepresentations of facts and statistics on a particular matter close to your own heart, that you must either speak up against said falsehoods or leave the conversation altogether.
In May of of 2007, I was faced with one a pack of lies/mistruths about health insurance in Japan and the General Union that led me to a decision. That decision being that I simply could not and would not tolerate certain statements going unCORRECTED.
Yes friends, this is a three part story of a the first correction, by yours verily, The Corrector.
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Many of you may have seen this before through the original link on Let’s Japan earlier this year, but I wanted to highlight the story here as well. This report aired on NHK on June 30th, 2007. The first part covers a bit of NOVA (old NOVA that is, not neo/G.Communications/NOVA), and then the second part covers the hardships of some awesome people working as teachers in Chiba under the strangling gauntlet of Interac…
On 30 March, seven General Union members visited Interac’s Osaka headquarters in Honmachi to hand out union literature to a group of 20 new Interac teachers who were there to receive their UNPAID training.
Knowing that teachers had their lunch break from 12:00 to 1:00 the assembled members were in time to make sure we could talk to everyone present. Twelve o’clock passed and nothing stirred, not even a mouse. Then 12:05, 12:10, and finally at 12:15 one teacher was sent down to check what we were doing; we could already see the assembly of Interac managers watching us from the balcony.
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