Category: Action

G.communications has gone back on its promise to hire all former NOVA teachers who apply, announcing on Christmas Eve that 600 applicants would not be rehired. Reasons given for the decision include difficulties in reopening schools, and the company’s plans to relocate the Ochanomaryugaku (interactive TV lessons) operation overseas in order to cut costs. This…

Fresh out of college, Sam Gordon bought a one-way ticket to Tokyo for a chance to explore Japan’s exotic culture while teaching English at the nation’s largest language school. All it took to get the job was one simple interview. The adventure, which began five years ago, has abruptly come to an end. His employer,…

NHK report on the Tokyo Nambu/Nova Union of Staff and Teachers October 28, 2007 Nova Information Session:

A labor union representing teachers at scandal-hit Nova Corp. submitted a petition Tuesday to the Osaka labor standards authority asking it to seek an indictment against the language school chain and President Nozomu Sahashi for breaching labor laws. The General Union asked the Osaka Central Labor Standards Supervision Office ? an arm of the Health,…

A labor union representing teachers from scandal-plagued NOVA Corp. went on strike Tuesday demanding the English conversation school chain pay unpaid wages and agree to collective negotiations. The Nova teachers’ branch of the National Union of General Workers Nambu also joined with other unions from western Japan to ask Labor Standards Supervision Offices in Tokyo…

English-language school Nova Corp. has raised ¥70 million in cash by issuing warrants for 200 million shares in total to two investment companies registered in the Virgin Islands, according to a paper submitted to the Kanto Local Financial Bureau and released to the public Tuesday. According to the paper, the scandal-hit language school will use…

The labor union of scandal-tainted language school operator Nova Corp. filed a request with labor standards supervision authorities Thursday to order the company to pay wages in arrears to its foreign teachers, union officials said. The industry giant, already embroiled in a scandal related to its fraudulent advertising practices, has failed to pay September wages,…

English-conversation school operator Nova Corp.’s planned closure of about 50 branches at the end of this month is indicative of the severe business climate the company faces, following a number of student contract cancellations and an order from the government in June to partially suspend its operations. The firm, the largest of its kind in…

Instructors from Nova Corp. demonstrated in central Osaka on Friday to protest the firm’s delay in their salary payments. About 50 foreign teachers, including those who have yet to receive salaries due to them on Sept. 14, began the demonstration from Nanba, in Osaka’s Minami district, holding signs that said, “Nova pay us now,” and…