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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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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Hi all, The Corrector here.
We are taking another survey amoung our fellow Interac/Maxceed employees (this survey is not limited to Union Members).
Here is the question:
Are you enrolled in unemployment insurance?
With the recent fall of NOVA and the stranding of many good teachers, most of which have gone weeks or months without pay, we should all turn our attention to something ELSE that we should all have: unemployment insurance, or 雇用保険 (Koyoh Hoken).
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Hi all, the Corrector here.
We are taking a survey amoung our fellow Interac/Maxceed employees (this survey is not limited to Union Members). Here is the question:
Do you have Nenkyu (paid, flexible holidays?)
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BoE
Twenty-three municipal boards of education in Osaka Prefecture are suspected of using native English-speaking contract workers as assistant language teachers and placing them under the control of schools, a possible violation of the Temporary Staffing Services Law, an Osaka-based union announced Thursday.
The Osaka Labor Bureau has instructed six municipal boards of education, including those in Takatsuki, Sakai, Hirakata and Higashi-Osaka, to reconsider the practices, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
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