Nova Union Goes to the Labor Standards Office 3

Teachers union wants Nova president indicted for breaching labor standards law

The labor union representing teachers at scandal-hit English-language school operator Nova Corp asked the Osaka labor standards authority Tuesday to seek an indictment of the company and Nova President Nozomu Sahashi on charges of a breach of a labor standards law.


The General Union requested the Osaka Central Labor Standards Supervision Office, an arm of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, to ask public prosecutors to build a criminal case against the company and its president over a delay in payments of wages in arrears to its foreign instructors.

Union leaders and related parties visited the labor standards supervision office Tuesday to hand over a document asking it to lodge the request with prosecutors.

"Although the union stands ready to ask public prosecutors to build a criminal case, the union deems it to be more appropriate for the Labor Standards Supervision Office itself to file a criminal complaint with prosecutors asking them to file an indictment," , General Union leader Katsuji Yamahara said.

Wage payments for Nova's 4,000 foreign instructors in mid-September were delayed for weeks. Nova has also notified the instructors that wage payments due in mid-October will be delayed until Oct 19, the union said.

On top of this, wage payments to around 2,000 Japanese employees due at the end of July and August were also delayed. Although they were eventually paid for those months, their wages due at the end of September have not been paid.

Article 24 of the Labor Standards Law stipulates that companies must pay wages to employees at least once a month, on a fixed date.

NOVAの外国人講師らが加盟する労組、賃金支払い遅延で社長の立件など求める要望書提出

英会話学校の最大手「NOVA」の外国人講師らが加盟する労働組合は16日、講師への賃金支払いが遅れているとして、刑事処罰の手続きを取るよう求めた。
「NOVA教職員組合」のルイス・カーレット氏は、「講師の人たちもスタッフの人たちも、給与が支払われていないということで、生活が困難になっています」と話した。
講師たちは、外国人講師を含めスタッフの賃金の支払いは2カ月連続で遅れていて、労働基準法違反であるとしている。
このため講師たちは、新宿労働基準監督署に、NOVAと猿橋 望社長の立件と書類送検を求め、要請書を提出した。

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[HOTSTUDMUFFIN4649]

What a colossal waste...............

I would start jobhunting if I were them.

[63ZEBRA]

労働基準監督署は役にたたんぞ。

[komonews]

軍隊に入れ、楽しいぞ。イラクもいけるぞ。アホ英語教師ども。

[makiauburn]

ボランティアで十分。

[kume227]

sahashi don't hide !!!