Nova Union Goes to the Labor Standards Office 2

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社長に刑事処罰求め外国人講師らが労基署に訴え

　英会話学校最大手「NOVA」の外国人講師らが、10月分の賃金の支払いが遅れているとして、労働基準監督署に対して刑事処罰の手続きを取るよう求めました。

　講師らによると、外国人講師の賃金支払いの遅れは2カ月連続です。10月は15日が支払日でしたが、NOVA側は、19日に支払うことをファクシミリで全国各地の学校に伝­えていました。このため、外国人講師らが加盟する労働組合は、労働基準法違反にあたるとして、猿橋社長に出頭を求めたうえで、NOVA に刑事処罰の手続きを取るよう大阪市内と東京・新宿区の労働基準監督署に要請しました。また、労働組合側は、NOVAの経営陣に対して団体交渉を申し入れ、支払い遅れの理­由や会社の財政状況などについて説明を求めることにしています。

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